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SUMMARY:The politics of the potato in the 19th century - Rebecca Earle (Un
 iversity of Warwick)
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CONTACT:Laura Brassington
DESCRIPTION:Over the 19th century potatoes became deeply embedded in argum
 ents about the merits of capitalism. Political radicals condemned potatoes
  as a tool of exploitation. Advocates of free trade denounced them as an o
 bstacle to economic rationality (Ireland being a prime example)\, and nutr
 itionists investigated the deleterious effects of 'sluggish potato blood' 
 on the urban proletariat's productivity. This talk sketches out the ways i
 n which potatoes\, and the everyday eating practices of working people\, b
 ecame entangled in debates about industrialisation and economic change in 
 19th-century Europe\, to show how talking about potatoes provided a way to
  talk about capitalism.
LOCATION:Seminar Room 1\, Department of History and Philosophy of Science
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