Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Nutritional Knowledge between the Lab and the Field: The Search for Dietary Norms in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 2 How Vegetarians, Naturopaths, Scientists, and Physicians Unmade the Protein Standard in Modern Germany
- 3 Of Carnivores and Conquerors: French Nutritional Debates in the Age of Empire, 1890–1914
- 4 Setting Standards: The Soldier's Food in Germany, 1850–1960
- 5 The Quest for a Nutritional El Dorado: Efforts to Demonstrate Dietary Impacts on Resistance to Infectious Disease in the 1920s and 1930s
- 6 “Not a Complete Food for Man”: The Controversy about White versus Wholemeal Bread in Interwar Britain
- 7 “Proscribing Deception”: The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling
- 8 When Is a Famine Not a Famine? Gauging Indian Hunger in Imperial and Cold War Contexts
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
Contents
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 April 2018
Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- 1 Nutritional Knowledge between the Lab and the Field: The Search for Dietary Norms in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
- 2 How Vegetarians, Naturopaths, Scientists, and Physicians Unmade the Protein Standard in Modern Germany
- 3 Of Carnivores and Conquerors: French Nutritional Debates in the Age of Empire, 1890–1914
- 4 Setting Standards: The Soldier's Food in Germany, 1850–1960
- 5 The Quest for a Nutritional El Dorado: Efforts to Demonstrate Dietary Impacts on Resistance to Infectious Disease in the 1920s and 1930s
- 6 “Not a Complete Food for Man”: The Controversy about White versus Wholemeal Bread in Interwar Britain
- 7 “Proscribing Deception”: The Gould Net Weight Amendment and the Origins of Mandatory Nutrition Labeling
- 8 When Is a Famine Not a Famine? Gauging Indian Hunger in Imperial and Cold War Contexts
- Selected Bibliography
- List of Contributors
- Index
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- Setting Nutritional StandardsTheory, Policies, Practices, pp. v - viPublisher: Boydell & BrewerPrint publication year: 2017