Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
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Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
About this book
The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages. Food, most noticeably, became a scarcity in everyday life; and that food grew into a major stake for all political groups at this time. This book shines a much-needed spotlight on the political role of food in Southeastern Europe from 1939 to 1945. Controlling food was a key strategy adopted by all actors – be they occupiers, state institutions, resistance organizations, international humanitarian organizations or private interest groups – in substantiating their bid for power. As a predominantly agrarian area with a substantial peasant population, investigating this topic is particularly poignant for Southeastern Europe. From discussions of searching for and fighting for food to offering relief and instrumentalising of food politically, the chapters in this volume add nuance to discussions on the complex intertwined political and social dynamics of war and occupation. In so doing, this sophisticated study fills an important gap in our understanding of the Second World War, food policy, and the social history of Europe more broadly.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Halftitle Page
- Title Page
- Contents
- List of figures
- List of maps
- List of contributors
- List of abbreviations
- Introduction
- Part One Germany: Extracting food and labour
- 1 The western Banat as Germany’s breadbasket and the role of the Banat Germans in agricultural extraction
- 2 Coal and copper for the German war effort: Food and labour in Yugoslav mining industries
- Part Two Italy: Instrumentalizing food
- 3 Between chaos and economic weakness: Italian food policies in Albania (1939–43)
- 4 Imperial humanitarianism: Italy and the Greek famine during the Second World War (1941–43)
- Part Three Cities: Searching for food
- 5 The rationing system and self-sufficiency efforts in Ljubljana during the Second World War
- 6 Trying the impossible: The Zagreb Jewish Community and the provisioning of female camp inmates (1941–42)
- Part Four Contested territories: Fighting for food
- 7 Food and food policies in central Dalmatia from April 1941 to the Italian capitulation in September 1943
- 8 ‘To live by the gun’: Food insecurity, ethnic violence and political mobilization in occupied Greece (1941–44)
- Part Five Liberated territories: Feeding the Partisans
- 9 Survival and equity: The moral economy of the liberated territories of Western Bosnia (1941–45)
- 10 The National Liberation Movement and food policies in the liberated inland territories of southern Albania (1942–44)
- Conclusion: The power of food in wartime
- Index
- Imprint