The Value of Contemporary Food and Nutrition Studies for Historians

The Value of Contemporary Food and Nutrition Studies for Historians The articles in this issue that have been written by historians provide stimulating reading for nutritionists because so much of the evidence for the effects of hunger and malnutrition in historical records are precisely reflected in contemporary differences among societies. Almost any historical pattern of interaction among food supply, food consumption, and the human condition can be identified and studied in some part of the world today, although not necessarily on the same scale or for the same duration. What this means, however, is that nutritional mechanisms and consequences that can be discerned only with great difficulty from the usually sparse and inadequate historical data can often be understood with reasonable certainty through access to detailed contemporary information and analysis. It is as if historians investigating the food and nutrition problems of the past and their consequences had been given a Rosetta stone that facilitated the interpretation of otherwise obscure written material

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• On the Role of Crises in Historical Perspective

  John Komlos•Population and Development Review•1988

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• A História da Alimentação

  Open Access•Ulpiano T Bezerra De Meneses, Henrique Carneiro et al.•Anais do Museu Paulista História…•1997

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