Overview
Food consumption and nutrition are historically among the most characteristic features of inequality in living standards driven by socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical reasons. Nutrition directly impacts mortality, life expectancy, height and illness and thus becomes a good indicator of living standards and their evolution over time. However, one issue that remains unresolved is how to measure past diet inequalities with the available sources. This book evaluates nutritional inequalities in Spain from the nineteenth century to the present day. It explores the socioeconomic, gender, generational and geographical variations in food consumption and nutrition in Spain during this period. Deriving historical data on nutrition and diet has always been difficult due to issues with available sources. This book adopts a multi-dimensional approach and two complementary methodologies capable of presenting a more comprehensive picture: the first analyses diets based on primary sources, while the second examines the effect of nutritional inequalities on biological living standards, with special emphasis on average height. This combination allows for greater precision than previous studies on the impacts of food inequality. This book will be of significant interest to scholars from different academic branches, especially historians, economic historians and historians of science, economists, and also doctors, endocrinologists, paediatricians, anthropologists, nutritionists and expert in cooperation and development.
Full Product Details
Author: Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo ,
José Miguel Martínez-Carrión ,
Salvador Calatayud
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint: Routledge
Weight: 0.526kg
ISBN: 9781032212494
ISBN 10: 1032212497
Pages: 260
Publication Date: 08 October 2024
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
""[A] compct set of rigorous and varied chapters, supported on laboriously reconstructed empirical foundations. It is a fantastic contribution that will be extraordinarily useful not only for researchers interested in Spain but also for those interested in producing truly international histories of living standards, or simply positioning their case studies within a historiographical landscape richer than that formed by early industrializers with high levels of economic development."" Fernando Collantes, Social History of Medicine
Author Information
Francisco J. Medina-Albaladejo., PhD in Economic History (Autonomus University of Barcelona, Spain, 2011). Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Valencia, Spain. His research addresses various topics within the field of economic and social history: agricultural and consumer co-operatives and their relationship with the industrialization of the food sector and the improvement of living standards; and the development of the nutritional transition in Spain. He has published in international journals such as Economic History Review, European Review of Economic History, Business History, Enterprise & Society, International Review of Social History or Journal of Wine Research. More information at: https://www.ehvalencia.es/en/francisco-j-medina-albaladejo-en/. José Miguel Martínez-Carrión., PhD in History and Professor of Economic History and Institutions at the University of Murcia. He has researched different fields: historical demography, agricultural history and anthropometric history. He has been the editor of the journal Historia Agraria and the Secretary-General elect of the Spanish Association of Economic History (AEHE). He is the coordinator of the network Standards of Living, Health, Nutrition and Inequality (NISALDes) and the founder of the Ibero-American Network of Anthropometric History (RedIBEHA). His latest papers have been published in American Journal of Human Biology, Social Science & Medicine, Economics and Human Biology and Social Science History. More information at: https://webs.um.es/jcarrion/. Salvador Calatayud., PhD in Geography and History. Associate Professor of Economic History at the University of Valencia. His research addresses various topics within the field of economic and social history: rural history; food history; water use in agriculture; institutional change in the building of the Modern State in Spain. He has published in national and international journals such as Economic History Review, Rural History, Historia Agraria, Nutrición Hospitalaria and Ayer. More information at: https://www.ehvalencia.es/en/salvador-calatayud-giner-en/.
