Modern Hungers - Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany

Informationen zum Autor Alice Weinreb is an assistant professor of history at Loyola University Chicago. Klappentext Spanning World War I to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Modern Hungers shows how food and hunger have been central to economic policy, political identity, and everyday life in modern Germany. It historicizes contemporary issues ranging from the obesity epidemic to the gender-wage gap to famine relief. Zusammenfassung Spanning World War I to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Modern Hungers shows how food and hunger have been central to economic policy, political identity, and everyday life in modern Germany. It historicizes contemporary issues ranging from the obesity epidemic to the gender-wage gap to famine relief. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments Introduction Modern Hungers in Modern Germany Chapter One The Geopolitics of Total War: Food in the First World War Chapter Two Blood and Soil: The Food Economy and the Nazi Racial State Chapter Three Hunger and the Remaking of History: Rationing, Suffering, and Human Rights in Occupied Germany Chapter Four Fueling Reconstruction: Production and Consumption in Divided Germany Chapter Five Kitchen Debates: The Family Meal and Female Labor in East and West Germany Chapter Six Fighting Fat: Obesity and the Healthy Body in the Late Cold War Epilogue Yes, We Have No Bananas: Negotiating Past and Future in Reunified Germany Notes Bibliography Index

Product details

• Authors: Alice Weinreb, Alice (Assistant Professor of History Weinreb, Weinreb Alice
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.06.2017
• EAN: 9780190605094
• ISBN: 978-0-19-060509-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; HISTORY / Europe / Germany, European History, Germany, 20th Century, POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Agriculture & Food, 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, Economic history, Food security & supply, Cold wars and proxy conflicts, Food security and supply