Routledge Library Editions: Food and Diet
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Development and the Problems of Village Nutrition
1st Edition
By Sue Schofield
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1979, Development and the Problems of Village Nutrition was concerned with the development of micro-level approaches (and one in particular) to nutrition problem identification. The author believed that malnourishment could only really be examined, analysed and understood at...
Diet and Health in Modern Britain
1st Edition
Edited
By Derek J. Oddy, Derek S. Miller
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1985, Diet and Health in Modern Britain examines the changes in diet and health in Britain during the rapid social development of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. It is particularly concerned with the ways in which the problems of urban life were ...
Food Adulteration and How to Beat It
1st Edition
By The London Food Commission
August 10, 2026
‘All natural: no artificial colours or flavours’. This was an increasingly familiar claim made for the food we bought in the late 1980s. But what about the other ingredients? Additives are only one form of adulteration. Nitrates, excess water, pesticide residues, too much fat, and the newest of ...
Food Aid Reconsidered: Assessing the Impact on Third World Countries
1st Edition
Edited
By Edward Clay, Olav Stokke
August 10, 2026
Food aid continues to be a high profile, and perhaps the most controversial form of aid. Food Aid Reconsidered: Assessing the Impact on Third World Countries, originally published in 1991, which concentrates on recent experience, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa, provided a stocktaking on the state...
Keeping Children Healthy: The Role of Mothers and Professionals
1st Edition
By Berry Mayall
August 10, 2026
In Britain, class differences in children’s health remain wide, and it is often assumed that an important contributory factor is class differences in the attitudes and behaviours of mothers. Originally published in 1986, Keeping Children Healthy draws on an empirical study to throw light on mothers...
The Earth Can Feed Us
1st Edition
By Hugo Osvald
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1966, the extremely urgent task confronting our generation – to produce food in sufficient quantity and of adequate quality for the world’s rapidly increasing population – may have appeared terrifyingly great and very difficult to solve. In fact, some regarded it as ...
The Making of the Modern British Diet
1st Edition
Edited
By Derek J. Oddy, Derek S. Miller
August 10, 2026
Food is the physiological basis of man’s existence but is also an expression of a society’s culture and may play many roles other than physiological in terms of both personal and group relationships. Originally published in 1976, The Making of the Modern British Diet focusses on the role of food ...
The Politics of Food
1st Edition
By George Darling
August 10, 2026
Originally published in 1941, a popular discussion on Food Policy was very welcome at a time when it had become a personal problem for every housewife. It was the purpose of this book to bring home to the general public the nature of the problem. The author first exposes capitalism’s failure to ...
Routledge Library Editions: Food and Diet: 8 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Various
June 20, 2025
This 8-volume set, first published between 1941 and 1991, looks at food and diet, in both the developed and the developing world from a number of perspectives. It includes topics such as: additives in food, food aid, food distribution, food poverty, nutrition and the impact on health, and the ...