Modern food, moral food self-control, science, and the rise of modern American eating in the early twentieth century / Helen Zoe Veit.
| Author/creator | Veit, Helen Zoe |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2013] |
| Description | xiii, 300 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from JSTOR University of North Carolina Press Publisher Collection (Backlist) |
| Subjects |
| 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-294) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2012049092 |
| ISBN | 9781469607702 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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| Electronic Resources | Access Content Online | ✔ Available |