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leifhammer, 8 months ago

@ASECS @histodons

I assume it must be tied to the idea of the useful citizen, though the sources where I keep encountering this haven't taken it that far

leifhammer, 8 months ago

@ianrogers @ASECS @histodons

Thank you! What about earlier less formalised ideas about it? The source material where I've noticed this cropping up is from the early and late eighteenth century

leifhammer, 8 months ago

@ianrogers @mazdam @ASECS @histodons

I've only read a little Rousseau many years ago, should be interesting to pick him up again. Looking briefly at the scholarship on the person who wrote one of the sources that spurred this for me, seems people doubt any Lockean influence, but no word so far on Rousseau. Will be interesting to delve into this

leifhammer, 10 months ago

@CloudyMrs @histodons @ASECS I agree, I’m sure it would have. I’m after general overviews, the broad strokes of attitudes to food in the eighteenth century, and hopefully such accounts would say something of regional differences as well as differences between different strata of society

leifhammer, 10 months ago

@CloudyMrs @histodons @ASECS now I'm unsure if we're talking about the same thing? I'm looking for general books and articles by (for the most part) food historians who've written on attitudes to food and eating in the eighteenth-century. And not so much what people actually ate, more about what different groups of people thought people should eat or not eat, and why.

I reckon those historians will have synthesised a wide range of source material that either directly talked about food (in the big centres of population) or mention it in passing (making value judgements about it) and even some material to make good guesses or generalisations for certain regions. That said, I agree with what you say that it was likely locally more varied then (as is certainly the case in my home country) and that it is unlikely anyone wrote about the very small or remote areas.