Modern food, moral food : self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.

  • Veit, Helen Zoe
Date:
[2013]
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Publication/Creation

Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013]

Physical description

xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Bibliographic information

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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.

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    History of Medicine
    DFXP.6.AA9
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ISBN

  • 9781469607702
  • 1469607700