Feeding Manila In Peace And War, 1850-1945 (new Perspectives In Se Asian Studies)

Policymakers and scholars have come to realize that getting food, water, and services to the millions who live in the world’s few dozen megacities is one of the twenty-first century’s most formidable challenges. As these populations continue to grow, apocalyptic scenarios—sprawling slums plagued by hunger, disease, and social disarray—become increasingly plausible. In __Feeding Manila in Peace and War__, __1850–1945__, Daniel F. Doeppers traces nearly a century in the life of Manila, one of the world’s largest cities, to show how it grew and what sustained it. Doeppers follows key commodities for the city—rice, produce, fish, fowl, meat, milk, flour, coffee—and their complex interconnections. In the process he considers the changing ecology of the surrounding region as well as the social fabric that weaves together farmers, merchants, transporters, storekeepers, and door-to-door vendors. Introduction: Why Provisionment? -- Part I. The Rice Trade. The Manila Rice Trade In The Age Of Sail -- Paleotechnic Marvels And Rice Production Disasters, 1876-1905 -- The Manila Rice Trade To 1941 -- Changing Commercial Networks In The Rice Trade -- Part Ii. Ulam: What You Eat With Rice? Vegetables, Fruit, And Other Garden Produce -- Fishing And Aquaculture -- Generations Of Hustlers: Fowl And Swine In Manila -- Beef, Cattle Husbandy, And Rinderpest -- Part Iii. Fluids And Fashions. Fluide Of Life: Water And Milk -- Foreign Fashions: Flour And Coffee Versus Cocoa -- Part Iv. Wartime Provisioning And Mass Starvation. Subsistence And Starvation In World War Ii, 1941-1945. Daniel F. Doeppers. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.