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Interlude

Published in Yale University Press eBooks • Jun 27, 2023
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Authors:
Deborah Valenze

Abstract

This interlude examines the place of bread in the history of scarcity. Despite widespread acceptance of tastes changing with the times, Thomas Robert Malthus viewed laborers' demands for white bread as an indication of their self-defeating sense of entitlement. More important, however, was the way i...

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