Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change

The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption since 1950

Fernando Collantes (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

288 Seiten

2024
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-40154-9 (ISBN)

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In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have been mostly left behind, but they have given way to new problems linked to excess. In this book Fernando Collantes shows how the dairy industry has been central to this societal shift. From widespread calcium deficiency in the 1950s to the more recent, and controversial, turn to highly processed foods, it provides a recent history of diet change in Spain. Probing the reasons behind why this shift has occurred, and how, it shows that when it comes to food society, politics, economics and the law are intrinsically linked.

Taking the reader beyond the world of food, Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change combines qualitative and quantitative methods to position diet change within the broader debate on consumer society and ‘the good life’. Contrasting two models of food consumption, it shows that unless public policy takes the challenge of affluence seriously, the food system can become an obstacle to a better society.

Fernando Collantes is Associate Professor of Socio-Economic History at University of Oviedo, Spain. He is the author of Peaceful surrender: the depopulation of rural Spain in the twentieth century (with Vicente Pinilla 2011) and The political economy of the Common Agricultural Policy: coordinated capitalism or bureaucratic monster? (2020).

Introduction
Part I: Food Consumption in Affluent Societies
1. The History of Diet Change since 1945
2. The Political Economy of Diet Change
3. Tracking Models of Dairy Consumption in Spain
Part II: The First Milky Wave (1950-1990)
4. The Massification of Milk Consumption
5. Losing the ‘milk battle’ (1950-1965)
6. Winning the ‘milk battle’ (1965-1990)
Part III: The Second Milky Wave:
7. Upgrading Dairy Consumption
8. A Galbraith Moment
9. Food Consumerism meets the Great Recession
Part IV: History and the Politics of Diet Change
10. What can we learn from Spain’s milky waves?
11. Food, Public Policy and the Challenge of Affluence

Erscheint lt. Verlag	12.12.2024
Reihe/Serie	Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
Zusatzinfo	10 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Wirtschaftsgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10	1-350-40154-4 / 1350401544
ISBN-13	978-1-350-40154-9 / 9781350401549
Zustand	Neuware