Moving between economic history and the history of medicine, Between Feast and Famine is a comparative history of nutrition across the diverse spaces that make up modern Ghana. At the heart of this story is an analysis of how colonisation and capitalism variously affected the lives of women and children since the end of the nineteenth century.

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1 Nutrition in African history, the history of African nutrition
2 African foodways, British government, and the new science of nutrition
3 Food and health in the nineteenth century
4 Feeding the cocoa boom, c. 1896-1957
5 Hunger in the 'labour reservoir', c. 1896-1957
6 Feeding Ghanaian independence, c. 1957-1983
7 Towards a political economy of postcolonial nutrition
8 Neoliberal nutrition, c. 1983-2000
9 Space, time, and the nature of nutrition in the twenty-first century

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John Nott is a Research Fellow in Science, Technology and Innovation Studies at the University of Edinburgh.