The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory
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The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory
About this book
This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool.
Contributions to this volume reveal the complexities, variations, and motivations behind the instrumentalization of famine by political actors and regimes, and how the politics of perpetrating hunger and the politics of relieving it have often been intertwined. They also address how famine legacies have been subsequently politicized in public debates, educational practices, and popular media; and how these socially and politically constructed memories and myths, in turn, have shaped broader narratives about hunger and humanitarianism both in history and today.
The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory provides a crucial resource for scholars and students from all disciplines interested in the study of famines, as well as those interested in the history of war and troubled pasts more generally.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Tables
- List of Contributors
- Introduction: The politics of famine
- Part I State policies and responses
- 1 The autarkic policy: The origin of the Spanish famine, 1939–42, 1946
- 2 War, occupation and the politics of causing and fighting hunger in World War II
- 3 Food crises, extreme hunger and famine in Russia and the USSR1
- 4 Centre-periphery relations in the Soviet post-war famine of 1946–471
- Part II The international politics of famine and relief
- 5 The Allied blockade and British politics of food and famine during World War II
- 6 Humanitarian action: A moral economic periodization of famine relief
- 7 Fight the famine: American Quakers and child feeding in Germany after the First World War1
- Part III Politicization of famine legacies
- 8 Famine, trauma and memory: Commemorating the Great Irish famine in the 1990s1
- 9 “I haven’t eaten so well for so long!”: Representations of the Allied blockade of Germany in German textbooks and film, 1914–32
- 10 Heritages of hunger in Europe: Transnational matter for the present day
- Afterword: Famines and power, past and present
- Index