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1 online resource (xiii, 300 pages) : illustrations |
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monochrome |
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text file |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index. |
Contents |
Victory over ourselves: American food in the era of the Great War -- National willpower: American asceticism and self-government -- Eating cats and dogs to feed the world: The progressive quest for rational food -- Food will win the world: Food aid and American power -- A school for wives: Home economics and the modern housewife -- A corn-fed nation: Race, diet, and the eugenics of nutrition -- Americanizing the American diet: Immigrant cuisines and not-so-foreign foods -- The triumph of the will: The progressive body and the thin ideal -- Epilogue: Moral food and modern food. |
Summary |
"American eating changed dramatically in the early twentieth century. As food production became more industrialized, nutritionists, home economists, and so-called racial scientists were all pointing Americans toward a newly scientific approach to diet. Food faddists were rewriting the most basic rules surrounding eating, while reformers were working to reshape the diets of immigrants and the poor. And by the time of World War I, the country's first international aid program was bringing moral advice about food conservation into kitchens around the country. In this book the author argues that the twentieth-century food revolution was fueled by a powerful conviction that Americans had a moral obligation to use self-discipline and reason, rather than taste and tradition, in choosing what to eat. She weaves together cultural history and the history of science to bring readers into the strange and complex world of the American Progressive Era. The era's emphasis on science and self-control left a profound mark on American eating, one that remains today in everything from the ubiquity of science-based dietary advice to the tenacious idealization of thinness"--Provided by publisher. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Diet -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Diet. |
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United States. |
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History. |
Chronological Term |
20th century |
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Food habits -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Food habits. |
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Food habits -- United States -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychological aspects. |
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Body image -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Body image. |
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United States -- Social conditions -- 20th century.
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Social conditions. |
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Diet -- history. |
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Body Image. |
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Food -- history. |
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Feeding Behavior -- psychology. |
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History, 20th Century. |
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Nutritional Requirements. |
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Social Conditions -- history. |
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United States. |
Chronological Term |
1900 - 1999 |
Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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Other Form: |
Print version: Veit, Helen Zoe, author. Modern food, moral food 9781469607702 (DLC) 2012049092 (OCoLC)821067772 |
ISBN |
9781469612751 (electronic book) |
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1469612755 (electronic book) |
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9781469607702 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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1469607700 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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