Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars

This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first half of the Twentieth century. Food shortages and famines, fears of deprivation, and food regulations and controls were a shared European experience in this period. Conflicts over food, however, developed differently in different regions, under different regimes, and within different social groups. These developments had stark consequences for social solidarity and physical survival. Ranging across Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain to Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union, this volume explores the political, economic and cultural dynamics that shaped conflicts over food and their legacies.

List of contents

Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars; F.Trentmann & F.Just Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, c. 1890s-1950; F.Trentmann Consumption and Total Warfare in Paris, 1914-18; T.Bonzon Food Provision and Food Retailing in the Hague, 1914-30; T.de Nijs Dictating Food: Autarchy, Food Provision and Consumer Politics in Fascist Italy, 1922-43; A.Nützenadel Stalin, Soviet Agriculture, and Collectivization; M.BTauger Brown Bread for Victory: German and British Wholemeal Politics in the Interwar Period; U.Spiekermann Danish Food in the German War Economy; M.R.Nissen The Mystery of the Dying Dutch: Can Micronutrient Deficiencies Explain the Difference between Danish and Dutch Wartime Mortality?; R.Futselaar A View from the Top: Social Elites and Food Consumption in Britain, 1930s-40s; P.Brassley & A.Potter Popular Morality and the Black Market in Britain, 1939-55; M.Roodhouse Food and the Food Crisis in Post-war Germany, 1945-48: British Policy and the Role of British NGOs; J-D.Steinert

About the author

THIERRY BONZON Maître de Conférence of Contemporary History, University of Marne-la-Vallée, France
PAUL BRASSLEY Senior Lecturer, University of Plymouth, UK
THIMO DE NIJS Postdoctoral Fellow, Leiden University, The Netherlands
RALF FUTSELAAR Researcher, The Netherlands Institute for War Documentation
MOGENS R. NISSEN Assistant Professor of History, University of Southern Denmark
ALEXANDER NÜTZENADEL Adjunct Professor of History, University of Cologne, Germany
ANGELA POTTER Freelance Writer and Librarian
MARK ROODHOUSE Lecturer in Modern History, University of York, UK
UWE SPIEKERMANN Assistant Professor, Institute for Economic and Social History, Goettingen, Germany
JOHANNE-DIETER STEINERT Research Fellow, University of Wolverhampton, UK
MARK B. TAUGER Associate Professor of Russian and Soviet History, West Virginia University, USA

Summary

This volume examines conflicts over food and their implications for European societies in the first half of the Twentieth century. Food shortages and famines, fears of deprivation, and food regulations and controls were a shared European experience in this period. Conflicts over food, however, developed differently in different regions, under different regimes, and within different social groups. These developments had stark consequences for social solidarity and physical survival. Ranging across Europe, from Scandinavia and Britain to Germany, Italy and the Soviet Union, this volume explores the political, economic and cultural dynamics that shaped conflicts over food and their legacies.

Additional text

'Far from something of the distant past, crises surrounding food, its production, distribution, and consumption, marked the lives of Europeans across the continent, throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The remarkably diverse and consistently first-rate contributions to this volume demonstrate this importance, in questions from civil society to state control, globalization, and 'racial' policies. This excellent collection shows who ate, when, and how, and why it mattered.' - Belinda Davis, Rutgers University New Brunswick, USA, and author of Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (2000)

Report

'Far from something of the distant past, crises surrounding food, its production, distribution, and consumption, marked the lives of Europeans across the continent, throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The remarkably diverse and consistently first-rate contributions to this volume demonstrate this importance, in questions from civil society to state control, globalization, and 'racial' policies. This excellent collection shows who ate, when, and how, and why it mattered.' - Belinda Davis, Rutgers University New Brunswick, USA, and author of Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (2000)

Product details

• Assisted by: Just (Editor), Just (Editor), F. Just (Editor), Trentmann (Editor), F Trentmann (Editor), F. Trentmann (Editor)
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.2016
• EAN: 9781349541072
• ISBN: 978-1-349-54107-2
• No. of pages: 296
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 16 mm
• Weight: 454 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 296 p. 15 illus., 1 illus. in color.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories