The Invention of Scarcity: Malthus and the Margins of History
In: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
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In: Yale Agrarian Studies Series
In: Labor: studies in working-class history of the Americas, Band 10, Heft 3, S. 49-52
ISSN: 1558-1454
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 63
ISSN: 1471-6445
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Heft 63, S. 167-169
ISSN: 0147-5479
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 52, S. 183-185
ISSN: 0147-5479
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Band 52, S. 183-185
ISSN: 1471-6445
In: History workshop: a journal of socialist and feminist historians, Band 32, Heft 1, S. 194-197
ISSN: 1477-4569
In: Yale agrarian studies series
This radical new reading of the eighteenth-century British theorist Thomas Robert Malthus's Essay on the Principle of Population exposes his narrow understanding of food production by examining subsistence activities such as hunting, herding, and gardening. In broadening our conception of human livelihoods and environments, we can uncover pathways to resistance against the hegemony of Malthusian political economy. Deborah Valenze uses history, anthropology, food studies, and animal studies to redirect our attention to the margins and recenter them as spaces of experimentation, nimbleness, and human flourishing.
"How did an animal product that spoils easily, carries disease, and causes digestive trouble for many of its consumers become a near-universal symbol of modern nutrition? In the first cultural history of milk, historian Deborah Valenze traces the rituals and beliefs that have governed milk production and consumption since its use in the earliest societies. Covering the long span of human history, Milk reveals how developments in technology, public health, and nutritional science made this once-rare elixir a modern-day staple. The book looks at the religious meanings of milk, along with its association with pastoral life, which made it an object of mystery and suspicion during medieval times and the Renaissance. As early modern societies refined agricultural techniques, cow's milk became crucial to improving diets and economies, launching milk production and consumption into a more modern phase. Yet as business and science transformed the product in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, commercial milk became not only a common and widely available commodity but also a source of uncertainty when used in place of human breast milk for infant feeding. Valenze also examines the dairy culture of the developing world, looking at the example of India, currently the world's largest milk producer. Ultimately, milk's surprising history teaches us how to think about our relationship to food in the present, as well as in the past. It reveals that although milk is a product of nature, it has always been an artifact of culture"--
In: The American journal of sociology, Band 94, Heft 4, S. 896-898
ISSN: 1537-5390
In: Signs: journal of women in culture and society, Band 11, Heft 3, S. 572-573
ISSN: 1545-6943
In: The women's review of books, Band 12, Heft 4, S. 10
In: The women's review of books, Band 20, Heft 5, S. 4
In: International labor and working class history: ILWCH, Heft 52, S. 183-185
ISSN: 0147-5479
In: The women's review of books, Band 13, Heft 1, S. 24