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University of Chicago Press The Lion's Share: Scientific Nutrition and the British World System

Name: The Lion's Share: Scientific Nutrition and the British World System
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Reveals how nutrition science emerged from Britain’s attempts to mold the food chain to its imperial interests. The Lion’s Share offers a biography of nutrition as a scientific discipline, from its imperial birth, through its rise to fame, to its integration into an environmental and political global order. Even though medical knowledge involved food since ancient times, at the beginning of the twentieth century, nutrition was not yet a scientific discipline in an institutional or practical sense. Nevertheless, by the 1930s, it was one of the most politically influential scientific fields, with nutritionists operating as medical diplomats within national, international, and imperial organizations. As historian Alma Igra explains, it is through the global networks of British power that a decidedly marginal field of technical knowledge concerned with agricultural productivity and animal feeding evolved into an area of expertise governing the human diet and related issues of public health, economic development, and humanitarian aid. The Lion’s Share visits five pivotal moments that prompted new nutritional research at transnational meetings in Scotland, Iraq, Vienna, Geneva, and the Netherlands. Through the eyes of the experts, Igra tracks how nutrition became an international science, with mobile labs, collaborations among institutions, and a constant clash between local and imperial practices. Standardization of food measurement created new ways for food to be international and allowed politicians to imagine the world as one. Yet tensions remained that shaped international policy in the twentieth century and still affect international land policy today.

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Brand: University of Chicago Press
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 0226854981
Category: Books > Subjects > Science, Nature & Maths > History & Philosophy > History of Science
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 18 December 2026
Listed Since: 20 April 2026

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