Hungry for revolution : the politics of food and the making of modern Chile
Joshua Frens-String
Bok Engelsk 2021
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| Omfang | xiv, 305 sider : illustrasjoner
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| Opplysninger | Introduction : building a revolutionary appetite -- Worlds of abundance, worlds of scarcity -- Red consumers -- Controlling for nutrition -- Cultivating consumption -- When revolution tasted like empanadas and red wine -- A battle for the Chilean stomach -- Barren plots and empty pots -- Epilogue : a counterrevolution at the market.. - "Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties between workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, historian Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In doing so, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside"--
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| Geografisk emneord | Chile - History . - Chile : (NO-TrBIB)HUME01680
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| ISBN | 9780520343368. - 9780520343375
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