Hungry for Revolution: The Politics of Food and the Making of Modern Chile

by Joshua Frens-String

Overview

Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780520974753
Publisher:	University of California Press
Publication date:	06/29/2021
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	322
File size:	11 MB
Note:	This product may take a few minutes to download.

About the Author

Joshua Frens-String is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and an associate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS).

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments

Introduction: Building a Revolutionary Appetite

Part One: A Hungry Nation
1 • Worlds of Abundance, Worlds of Scarcity
2 • Red Consumers

Part Two: Containing Hunger
3 • Controlling for Nutrition
4 • Cultivating Consumption

Part Three: Recipes for Change
5 • When Revolution Tasted Like Empanadas and Red Wine
6 • A Battle for the Chilean Stomach
7 • Barren Plots and Empty Pots

Epilogue: Counterrevolution at the Market

Key Acronyms and Terms in Chilean Food History
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Editorial Reviews

"This highly readable and engaging narrative is suitable both for experts in Latin American and food history and for students looking to learn more about food politics and modern Chile."

Hispanic American Historical Review

"This is a very readable book, an important contribution to understanding Chilean history, and a valuable addition to the relatively thinly populated field of the history of technology in Latin America."

Technology and Culture