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Article: Hunger: A Modern History.(Book review)
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- Canadian Journal of History
- Article date:
- September 22, 2008
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Hunger: A Modern History, by James Vernon. Cambridge, Massachusetts, The Belknap Press, 2007. xii, 369 pp. $29.95 US (cloth).
There is, perhaps, no greater indictment of the current state of civilization than the coexistence of the morbidly obese with those who suffer from hunger on a daily basis, one of whom starves to death every 3.6 seconds. As we enter the twenty-first century, such a sickening spectacle shows no signs of disappearing, despite unprecedented investment in food programmes and charitable aid across the developing world and the prominence of nutritional education campaigns in Western societies. Given this reality, it has become crucial that ...