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12%OFFIan Mosby - Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front - 9780774827621 - V9780774827621
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Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front

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Description for Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front Paperback. A wide-ranging account of how millions of Canadians enlisted to fight on the kitchen front in order to win the war for food. Num Pages: 284 pages. BIC Classification: HBTB; HBWQ; WB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 422.

During WWII, as Canada struggled to provide its allies with food, nutritionists warned that malnutrition could derail the war effort. Posters admonished women and children to “Eat Right, Feel Right” because “Canada Needs You Strong” while cookbooks helped housewives become “housoldiers” through food rationing, menu substitutions, and household production.

Food Will Win the War explores the symbolic and material transformations that food and eating underwent during the war and the profound social, political, and cultural changes that took place in the 1940s. Through official food guides and policies, the state took unprecedented steps into the kitchens of the nation, transforming the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of British Columbia Press Canada
Number of pages
284
Condition
New
Number of Pages
288
Place of Publication
Vancouver, Canada
ISBN
9780774827621
SKU
V9780774827621
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About Ian Mosby
Ian Mosby is a historian of food, health, and nutrition in Canada and a postdoctoral fellow in the L.R. Wilson Institute for Canadian History at McMaster University.

Reviews for Food Will Win the War: The Politics, Culture, and Science of Food on Canada’s Home Front
Both books [Mosby’s Food Will Win the War as well as well as A Small Price to Pay: Consumer Culture on the Canadian Home Front by Graham Broad, UBC Press 2013] are much needed additions to the historiography of Canada’s Second World War Experience. Too often have the daily lives of those on the home front been overlooked in favour ... Read more

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