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Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945

Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945

by Daniel F. Doeppers
Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945

Feeding Manila in Peace and War, 1850-1945

by Daniel F. Doeppers

Overview

Getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world's few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century's most formidable challenges. This innovative history traces nearly a century in the life of the megacity of Manila to show how it grew and what sustained it. Focusing on the city's key commodities-rice, produce, fish, fowl, meat, milk, flour, coffee-Daniel F. Doeppers explores their complex interconnections, the changing ecology of the surrounding region, and the social fabric that weaves together farmers, merchants, transporters, storekeepers, and door-to-door vendors.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780299305109
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date: 04/11/2016
Series: New Perspectives in SE Asian Studies
Edition description: 1
Pages: 472
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

Daniel F. Doeppers is a professor emeritus of geography and Southeast Asian studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations                
Preface                       
List of Abbreviations             
 
Introduction: Why Provisionment?               
 
Part I: The Rice Trade
1 The Manila Rice Trade in the Age of Sail               
2 Paleotechnic Marvels and Rice Production Disasters, 1876-1905            
3 The Manila Rice Trade to 1941                  
4 Changing Commercial Networks in the Rice Trade            
 
Part II: Ulam: What You Eat with Rice
5 Vegetables, Fruit, and Other “Garden” Produce                 
6 Fishing and Aquaculture                 
7 “Generations of Hustlers”: Fowl and Swine in Manila                  
8 Beef, Cattle Husbandry, and Rinderpest                
 
Part III: Fluids and Fashions
9 Fluids of Life: Water and Milk                   
10 Foreign Fashions: Flour and Coffee vs. Cocoa                 
 
Part IV: Wartime Provisioning and Mass Starvation
11 Subsistence and Starvation in World War II, 1941-45                 
 
Epilogue                     
 
Appendixes                
Notes             
Glossary                                
Bibliographical Note and Consular Reports              
Index
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