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1 online resource (x, 263 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
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text txt |
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computer c |
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online resource cr |
Contents |
Front matter -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Tables and figures -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction: 'The unremitted pressure': On hunger politics -- Part I Protesting hunger -- Food riots and the languages of hunger -- The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor -- Part II Hunger policies -- Measuring need: Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism -- Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse: or, the making of the poor as biological subjects -- Part III Theorising hunger -- The biopolitics of hunger: Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor -- Telling the hunger of 'distant' others -- Conclusions -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
ISBN |
9781526145635 (electronic book) |
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1526145634 (electronic book) |
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9781526145611 (electronic book) |
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1526145618 (electronic book) |
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9781526145628 (hardcover) |
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1526145626 (hardcover) |
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