Hungry for Revolution - by Joshua Frens-String (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Hungry for Revolution tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties between workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, historian Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In doing so, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Hungry for Revolution</i> tells the story of how struggles over food fueled the rise and fall of Chile's Popular Unity coalition and one of Latin America's most expansive social welfare states. Reconstructing ties among workers, consumers, scientists, and the state, Joshua Frens-String explores how Chileans across generations sought to center food security as a right of citizenship. In so doing, he deftly untangles the relationship between two of twentieth-century Chile's most significant political and economic processes: the fight of an emergent urban working class to gain reliable access to nutrient-rich foodstuffs and the state's efforts to modernize its underproducing agricultural countryside.<p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>"<i>Hungry for Revolution</i> is a terrific history of the importance of food in struggles over national modernization and democracy in twentieth-century Chile. It radically reframes debates about consumption to show how food was central to empowering poor people as Chilean citizens."--Heidi Tinsman, author of<i> Buying into the Regime: Grapes and Consumption in Cold War Chile and the United States</i> <p/> "This creative, deeply researched study offers scholars the opportunity to rethink some of the key narratives of twentieth-century Chilean history, re-envisioning the story of Chilean state formation as inextricably connected to everyday struggles. Not only will <i>Hungry for Revolution </i>shape Chilean history, but its impact promises to reverberate in the history of Latin American and political histories for years to come."--Camilo D. Trumper, author of <i>Ephemeral Histories: Public Art, Politics, and the Struggle for the Streets in Chile</i> <p/> "<i>Hungry for Revolution</i> is a brilliant reconceptualization of Chile's twentieth-century history narrated through the lens of food politics. Joshua Frens-String offers multiple insights into the ways changes in food, diet, and consumption patterns and practices were shaped by, and in turn shaped, key moments in Chilean history, from the 1920s and the formation of Chile's welfare state to Salvador Allende's socialist revolution and the violent right-wing counterrevolution during the Pinochet dictatorship."-- Thomas Klubock, Professor of History, University of Virginia<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Joshua Frens-String</b> is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin and an associate of the Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies (LLILAS).
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