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The problem of nutrition experimental science, public health, and economy in Europe, 1914-1945 / by Barona Vilar, Josep Lluis

Table of Contents: “…Making the problem of nutrition in interwar years -- Nutrition and public health : the international response -- Agriculture serving a science of nutrition -- Guiding principles for scientific studies on nutrition -- Food and nutrition in various countries -- Experts in action : physiology of nutrition and optimum diet -- Nutritional deficiencies and malnutrition -- Rural dietaries in Europe -- Nutrition and the war -- Famine disease in internment camps.…”
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Mothers and medicine a social history of infant feeding, 1890-1950 / by Apple, Rima D. (Rima Dombrow), 1944-

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Men of capital : scarcity and economy in mandate Palestine / by Seikaly, Sherene, 1971-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction : the politics of basic needs -- Men of capital : making money, making nation -- Women of thrift : domesticity and home economics -- A nutritional economy : the calorie, development, and war -- A public good : Palestinian businessmen and World War II -- The vegetable racket : scarcity and the cost of living -- Conclusion : postwar austerity and the discipline of detail.…”
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Global industry, local innovation the history of cane sugar production in Australia, 1820-1995 / by Griggs, P. D. (Peter D.)

Table of Contents: “…An introduction -- Sugar cane and the production of sugar -- pt. 1. 1788 to 1863 : beginnings -- Intermittent attempts at sugar production -- The rise of the Colonial Sugar Refining Company -- pt. 2. 1864 to 1914 : becoming established -- The spread of sugar cane cultivation -- The production unit : planters, central millers, and small farmers -- Science and the canegrowers -- The milling sector -- Competing for the sugar basin : refiners, merchants, and the Australian sugar market -- pt. 3. 1915 to 1995 : expansion, export-orientated, and regulated -- A regulated expansion -- Growing the crop : cultivation methods, implements, and plant nutrition -- Managing water -- Breeding and improving cane varieties -- Combatting pests -- Defeating cane diseases -- Harvesting and transport of cane -- Regulating and modernising the milling sector -- The refining, marketing, and pricing of sugar.…”
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Everyday Life under Communism and After : Lifestyle and Consumption in Hungary, 1945–2000 / by Valuch, Tibor

Table of Contents: “….: financial circumstances, prices, wages, and income inequalities in everyday life -- Chapter Three From plentiful privation to a consumer society: the changes and characteristics of consumer consumption -- Chapter Four This is how we lived: housing conditions, usage of living space, and interior decoration -- Chapter Five "Well-dressed and fashionable": changes in clothing styles, habits, and fashion -- Chapter Six "We ate, we drank, we filled our stomachs": nutrition, eating, and dietary habits -- Conclusions -- Appendix -- Bibliography -- Index.…”
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Maternalism reconsidered motherhood, welfare and social policy in the twentieth century /

Table of Contents: “…. / Rebecca Jo Plant -- Protecting mothers in order to protect children : maternalism and the 1935 Pan-American Child Congress / Nichole Sanders -- Maternal and child welfare, state policy and women's philanthropic activities in Brazil, 1930-45 / Maria Lucia Mott -- Maternalism in a paternalist state : the national organization for the protection of motherhood and infancy in fascist Italy / Elisabetta Vezzosi -- Maternalism, Soviet-style : the working 'mothers with many children' in postwar Western Ukraine / Yoshie Mitsuyoshi -- Infant-maternity health and nutritional programmes in Argentina : maternalism without maternalists? …”
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