Contributor
Nordstrom, Justin, editor.
ImprintFayetteville : The University of Arkansas Press, 2021.
Descriptionix, 287 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.
Note:I. Expanding geographic boundaries -- Yankee pigs and dying cattle : military logistics, animal disease, and economic power in the U.S. and colonial Africa in the 19th century / Erin Stewart Mauldin -- The decisive weapon? Rations and food supply in the Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 / Matthew Richardson -- Food and anticolonialism at Gandhi's intentional communities in South Africa and India / Karline McLain -- The making of Indian vegetarian identity / Mohd Ahmar Alvi -- Hungry empire : Manchuria and the failed food autarky in Imperial Japan, 1931-1941 / Jing Sun -- "We don't need red tape, we need red meat" : a comparative overview of the fight against black market meat in Australia, Canada, Great Britain, and the United States during World War II / Leslie A. Przybylek -- Food in the counterinsurgency of the Malayan Emergency : security, hawking, and food denial / Yvonne Tan -- II. Expanding chronological boundaries -- "To calm our rebellious stomachs" : U.S. soldiers' experience with food during the U.S.-Mexico War / Christopher Menking -- Food, hunger, and rebellion : Egypt in the First World War and its aftermath / Christopher S. Rose -- Tasting recovery : food, disability, and the senses in First World War American rehabilitation / Evan P. Sullivan -- Culinary nationalism and ethnic recipe collections during and after World War I / Carol Helstosky -- Still poor, still hungry? The health and diet of Belgian children after World War One / Nel de Mûelenaere -- Planting Pan-Americanism : the Good Neighbor Policy and the visual culture of corn, 1933-1945 / Breanne Robertson -- "Six taels and four maces (luk-leung-sei)" : food and wartime Hong Kong, 1938-1946 / Chi Man Kwong -- Selling out the revolution for a plate of beans : social eating and violence in Peru's civil conflict of the 1980s and 1990s / Bryce Evans.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:"This collection of essays examines how food and its absence have been used both as a destructive weapon and a unifying force in establishing governmental control and cultural cohesion during times of conflict"-- Provided by publisher.
