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Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change - Fernando Collantes

Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change

The Political Economy of Dairy Consumption since 1950
Buch | Softcover
288 Seiten
2026
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-40157-0 (ISBN)
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A quantitative and qualitative study of dairy consumption in Spain since 1950 to explore the history of diet change and its consequences on society.
In barely three generations the Spanish diet has changed beyond recognition. The traditional concerns around nutritional health and scarcity have been mostly left behind, but they have given way to new problems linked to excess. In this book Fernando Collantes shows how the dairy industry has been central to this societal shift. From widespread calcium deficiency in the 1950s to the more recent, and controversial, turn to highly processed foods, it provides a recent history of diet change in Spain. Probing the reasons behind why this shift has occurred, and how, it shows that when it comes to food society, politics, economics and the law are intrinsically linked.

Taking the reader beyond the world of food, Milk in Spain and the History of Diet Change combines qualitative and quantitative methods to position diet change within the broader debate on consumer society and ‘the good life’. Contrasting two models of food consumption, it shows that unless public policy takes the challenge of affluence seriously, the food system can become an obstacle to a better society.

Fernando Collantes is Associate Professor of Socio-Economic History at University of Oviedo, Spain. He is the author of Peaceful surrender: the depopulation of rural Spain in the twentieth century (with Vicente Pinilla 2011) and The political economy of the Common Agricultural Policy: coordinated capitalism or bureaucratic monster? (2020).

Introduction
Part I: The Rise and Fall of Good Diets
1. Something is Rotten
2. A neo-Schumpeterian Approach
3. Spain’s two models of dairy consumption since 1950
Part II: The Mass Consumption Model (1950-1990)
4. Massification
5. Losing the battle for milk (1950-1965)
6. Winning the battle (1965-1990)
Part III: Sophisticated Deviation
7. Upgrading Games
8. A Galbraith Moment (1990-2008)
9. Turbulence
Part IV: Conclusion
10. What can we learn from this case study?
11. How to promote good diets?

Erscheint lt. Verlag 25.6.2026
Reihe/Serie Food in Modern History: Traditions and Innovations
Zusatzinfo 10 bw illus
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Wirtschaftsgeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-350-40157-9 / 1350401579
ISBN-13 978-1-350-40157-0 / 9781350401570
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