Food in Nineteenth-Century British History Volume IV: Britain, Food and the World

VOLUME IV BRITAIN, FOOD AND THE WORLD

Series Preface
General Editors’ Introduction
Volume IV Introduction

PART 1: Britain, Food and the World
Introduction
1 The Food of London: A Sketch
G. DODD
2 The Wheat Problem
W. CROOKES
3 Report of the Royal Commission on Supply of Food and Raw Material in Time of War

PART 2: Curries
Introduction
4 Curries: Their Properties and Healthful and Medicinal Qualities
W. WHITE
5 Anglo-Indian Cookery at Home: A Short Treatise for Returned Exiles
H. HERVEY
6 London and Paris through Indian Spectacles
G. P. PILLAI
7 Curry Clubs
8 Curry in England

PART 3: Eating Cats, Dogs and Rats in China
Introduction
9 The Chinese: A General Description of China and its Inhabitants, Volume One
J. DAVIS
10 China, being ‘The Times’ Special Correspondence from China in the Years 1857–58
G. W. CROOKE
11 A Reminiscence of Canton, June 1859
P. G. L.
12 The Foreigner in Far Cathay
W. H. MEDHURST
13 Diet and Medicine in China

PART 4: Uncivilized Eating in Africa
Introduction
14 Native Literature
M. HAUSA
15 Adventures on the Western Coast of Africa
J. SMITH
16 The Lake Regions of Central Africa
R. F. BURTON
17 The Natural History of Man, being an Account of the Manners and Customs of the Uncivilised Races of Man
J. G. WOOD
18 British Central Africa
H. H. JOHNSTON
19 Travels in West Africa
M. H. KINGSLEY

PART 5: Eating in the Australias
Introduction
20 Te Ika A Maui or New Zealand and Its Inhabitants
R. TAYLOR
21 New Zealand and its Colonisation
W. SWAINSON
22 The Diet and Dainties of Australian Aborigines
A. ANDREWS
23 The Aborigines of Victoria, Volume Two
R. B. SMYTH

PART 6: Insisting on Eating British Food Abroad
Introduction
24 The Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook
F. A. STEEL AND G. GARDINER
25 Culinary Jottings: A Treatise in Thirty Chapters on Reformed Cookery for Anglo-Indian Exiles based upon Modern English and Continental Principles
WYVERN
26 Hilda’s ‘Where Is It?’ of Recipes
H. DUCKITT
27 ‘Verb. Sap.’: On Going to West Africa, Northern Nigeria, Southern and to the Coasts
A. FIELD

PART 7: Food, Governance and Resistance
Introduction
28 Observations on the Nature of the Food of the Inhabitants of Southern India
W. R. CORNISH
29 Sir Richard Temple’s Experiments on the Madras Famine
30 Poisoning by Wholesale: A Reminiscence of China Life
A. F. HEARD
31 The Poverty Problem
P. C. RAY

Bibliography
Index

Biography

Dr. Ian Miller is Senior Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University. He has authored seven books on the history of medicine and food. Of particular relevance are Ian’s book-length studies on the force-feeding of hunger strikers (2016), Irish dietary change following the devastating Famine (2013) and the surprisingly interesting history of the Victorian stomach (2011).