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Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

AvIngrid de Zwarte,Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco

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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.The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-27
Mått174 x 246 x 12 mm
Vikt378 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieRoutledge Studies in Modern European History
Antal sidor218
FörlagTaylor & Francis Ltd
ISBN9781032737638

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Ingrid de Zwarte is Assistant Professor of Economic and Environmental History at Wageningen University. Her research focuses on the central role of food and famine in modern warfare. She is the author of The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944--45 (Cambridge UP, 2020).Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco is Full Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Granada. His work focuses on the study of fascism, memory, the Spanish Civil War, and post-war Francoism. Currently, he is working on a book about the Spanish Famine.

Introduction: The Politics of Famine Part 1: 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 USSR 4. Centre-Periphery Relations in the Soviet Post-War Famine of 1946–47 Part 2 : 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 War Part 3: Politization of Famine Legacies 8. Famine, Trauma and Memory. Commemorating the Great Irish Famine in the 1990s 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