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A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more.In this book, Dana Simmons explores the enduring production of hunger in US history. Hunger, in the modern United States, became a technology—a weapon, a scientific method, and a policy instrument. During the nineteenth century, state agents and private citizens colluded in large-scale campaigns of ethnic cleansing using hunger and food deprivation. In the twentieth century, officials enacted policies and rules that made incarcerated people, welfare recipients, and beneficiaries of foreign food aid hungry by design, in order to modify their behavior. With the advent of ultraprocessed foods, food manufacturers designed products to stimulate cravings and consumption at the expense of public health. Taking us inside the labs of researchers devoted to understanding hunger as a biological and social phenomenon, On Hunger examines the continuing struggle to produce, suppress, or control hunger in America.
Dana Simmons is an historian of science and technology at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Vital Minimum: Need, Science, and Politics in Modern France.
Contents List of Illustrations Introduction1. The Starving Process2. Punishment and Reward3. Fight—Don’t Starve4. Food Aid and the Starved Personality5. Craving and Control6. Weapon of White Supremacy7. Carceral Hunger8. OzempicConclusion: They Were Hungry AcknowledgmentsNotesBibliographyIndex
"Simmons's approach to the history of hunger is distinctive in that she insists on holding at the center of the story those with hungry bellies—human and animal—rather than the profiteers and powerholders."
