The Politics of Hunger: Protest, Poverty and Policy in England, c. 1750-c. 1840 - Couverture souple

Griffin, Carl J.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1526167034 ISBN 13 : 9781526167033

Editeur : Manchester University Press, 2022

Synopsis

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named 'Hungry 40s' came amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an 'unremitted pressure'. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force.
This book is relevant to United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 2, Zero hunger.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carl J. Griffin is Lecturer in Historical Geography at Queen's University, Belfast

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Manchester University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1526167034
• ISBN 13: 9781526167033
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 280
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible