1994 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Diet and Social Change in History
| Project/Area Number |
04451078
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for General Scientific Research (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
History of Europe and America
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| Research Institution | Osaka University |
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Principal Investigator |
KAWAKITA Minoru Osaka Univ.Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (70107118)
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| Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha) |
FUJIMOTO Wakio Osaka Univ.Graduate School of Language and Culture, Professor, 言語文化部, 教授 (70029734)
HORII Toshio Osaka Univ.Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (90025049)
EGAWA Atsushi Osaka Univ.Faculty of Letters, Associate Professor, 文学部, 助教授 (80127191)
AISAKA Satoru Osaka Univ.Faculty of Letters, Professor, 文学部, 教授 (50027976)
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| Project Period (FY) |
1992 – 1994
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| Keywords | tea / potato / labor discipline / milk / English diet / industrialization / 工業化 / 都市化 |
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| Research Abstract |
The diet of English working class drastically changed during the Industrial Revolution, mainly through introduction of tea with sugar, potato, and milk. Having been a status symbol of the upper sort of people, tea rapidly became a code of urban laboring people, for it was quite appropriate to the urban style of low life and new labor discipline. On the other hand, potato also became very popular because of its high efficiency as a source of energy. Milk was absolutely necessary as a source of calcium and protein. In 1860s, these three types of food became cheaply obtainable in the healthy condition even in cities and checked the downward trend of English working-class people's height.
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