Hunger Redraws the Map

Mary Elisabeth Cox is Assistant Professor of International Relations at the Central European University, Vienna and author of Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914–1924 (2019). Claire Morelon is Lecturer in Modern European History at the University of Manchester. She is the author of Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914–1920 (2024).

• Introduction: hunger redraws the map Mary Elisabeth Cox and Claire Morelon; 1. War of want: the impact of the First World War on the global food economy Samuel Kruizinga; 2. Siege and blockade: starvation as a weapon of war Hew Strachan; 3. The politics of food: state reactions Francesco Frizzera; 4. Individual strategies of survival Friederike Kind-Kovacs; 5. Food as experience Sophie De Schaepdrijver; 6. Hunger envisioned Nicholas Siekierski; 7. Hunger in rural and urban areas and children on the move Mary Elisabeth Cox; 8. Food hierarchies: class, status, and social divisions Claire Morelon; 9. Hungry for change: civilian challenges to the state and demands for food Mustafa Aksakal and Melanie Schulze Tanielian; 10. Measuring food requirements and deprivation Joel Floris and Kaspar Staub; 11. The science of hunger and malnutrition Mark Harrison; 12. Famine in Russia and Europe, 1914–1922 Stephen G. Wheatcroft; 13. Healing hunger: post-war humanitarian action Eriks Jekabsons; 14. 'Hunger Draws the Map' Mary Elisabeth Cox and Claire Morelon; Select bibliography; Index.

'This volume brings together experts who move beyond other studies of humanitarian regimes and food insecurity to offer a richer, more comprehensive look at the global nuances of the question of hunger in the First World War era.' Tammy M. Proctor, Utah State University