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