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Plenty and Want, 3rd Edition

Author John Burnett , Proffessor John Burnett
Release Date: 2013/06/01
ISBN: 9780415008624
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Book Description

What did Queen Victoria have for dinner? And how did this compare with the meals of the poor in the nineteenth century? This classic account of English food habits since the industrial revolution answers these questions and more.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half Title
  3. Full Title
  4. Copyright
  5. Contents
  6. List of illustrations
  7. Preface to the third edition
  8. Part One 1815-50
    1. 1 England in transition
    2. 2 The agricultural labourer
    3. 3 The town worker
    4. 4 The food of the rich
    5. 5 Food adulteration
  9. Part Two 1850-1914
    1. 6 Feeding the nation
    2. 7 Rural England: romance and reality
    3. 8 Urban England: poverty and progress
    4. 9 High living
    5. 10 The quality of food
  10. Part Three 1914 to the present day
    1. 11 The First World War
    2. 12 Between the wars
    3. 13 The Second World War
    4. 14 Want and plenty, 1945-85
  11. Select bibliography
  12. Index
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