1st Edition
Inequality and Nutritional Transition in Economic History Spain in the 19th-21st Centuries
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.
Inequality and nutritional transition in economic history: Spain between the nineteenth and twenty-first centuries. New research and findings
FRANCISCO J. MEDINA-ALBALADEJO, JOSÉ MIGUEL MARTÍNEZ-CARRIÓN AND SALVADOR CALATAYUD
1. Diet and social inequality at the beginning of the nutritional transition in Mediterranean Spane, 1822–1936
FRANCISCO J. MEDINA-ALBALADEJO, SALVADOR CALATAYUD, ROSER NICOLAU-NOS AND JOSEP PUJOL-ANDREU
2. The rural–urban gap in nutritional status during the first phases of modern economic growth in Spain, 1836–1936
JAVIER PUCHE, JOSEP-MARIA RAMON-MUÑOZ, PEDRO M. PÉREZ-CASTROVIEJO AND JOSÉ MIGUEL MARTÍNEZ-CARRIÓN
3. The nutritional status of the Spanish population, 1860–2020: an approach to consider differences by sex and generations
XAVIER CUSSÓ SEGURA, GONZALO GAMBOA AND JOSEP PUJOL-ANDREU
4. Poor but tall. The height premium in the Canary Islands at the beginning of nutritional transition
JOSÉ MIGUEL MARTÍNEZ-CARRIÓN, BEGOÑA CANDELAMARTÍNEZ, CÁNDIDO ROMÁN-CERVANTES AND GINÉS DÍAZ-CARMONA
5. Secular trends in height in Madrid (cohorts 1915–1953). An approach to urban stratification and SEPE factors differences in Spain during the twentieth century
ELENA SANCHEZ-GARCIA, BARRY BOGIN, JOSE MANUEL TERAN, JOSE MIGUEL MARTINEZ-CARRION AND CARLOS VAREA
6. Food and nutrition of the soldiers of the Spanish Armed Forces (1940–1972)
PEDRO FATJO GOMEZ, FRANCISCO MUNOZ PRADAS AND ROSER NICOLAU-NOS
7. Malnutrition and regional inequalities in the context of a period of economic growth in Spain (1964–1972): rural food surveys
JOSEP BERNABEU-MESTRE, MARIA EUGENIA GALIANASANCHEZ, MARIA TORMO-SANTAMARIA AND EVA MARIA TRESCASTRO-LOPEZ
8. From massification to diversification: inequalities in the consumption of dairy products, meat and alcoholic drinks in Spain (1964–2018)
PABLO DELGADO AND VICENTE PINILLA
9. Inequality, health, and nutrition in Spain: a regional and sociodemographic view of the body mass index
JAVIER ARANCETA-BARTRINA AND CARMEN PEREZ-RODRIGO
10. Inequalities in the patterns of the consumption of healthy food during the Great Recession of 2008
CECILIA DIAZ MENDEZ AND ISABEL GARCIA ESPEJO
Biography
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/.
