Rachel Herrmann

Rachel Herrmann

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Rachel B. Herrmann is a Lecturer in Early Modern American History at the University of Southampton. She is revising her first book, No Useless Mouth: Hunger and the Revolutionary Atlantic, which is under contract with Cornell University Press.

Clio Reads

Which Foods Aren’t Disgusting? On Carla Cevasco’s Violent Appetites

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It has been a privilege to read Violent Appetites, the latest installment of a debate about hangriness that unfolded at Nursing Clio in 2017. At that time, Carla Cevasco and I agreed about the importance of recovering the myriad meanings of hunger in the eighteenth century and disagreed over who experienced “hangriness” – the sensation… Read more →

Bites of History

“We lost our appetite for food”: Why Eighteenth-Century Hangriness Might Not Be a Thing

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In August 2015, Oxford Dictionaries declared that the word “hangry” had entered our common vocabulary. Surely most people living in the twenty-first century have experienced the sense of being simultaneously hungry and angry. During the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, hunger was also everywhere. A recent NPR essay examines how slaveholders withheld food from enslaved people,… Read more →