Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xiii, 296 p)
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ill
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23 cm
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2011 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
1403986843
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9781403986849
Inhalt:
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
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Cover; Contents; List of Illustrations; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; 1 Introduction; 2 Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, c.1890s-1950; 3 Consumption and Total Warfare in Paris (1914-1918); 4 Food Provision and Food Retailing in The Hague, 1914-1930; 5 Dictating Food: Autarchy, Food Provision, and Consumer Politics in Fascist Italy, 1922-1943; 6 Stalin, Soviet Agriculture, and Collectivisation; 7 Brown Bread for Victory: German and British Wholemeal Politics in the Inter-War Period
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8 Danish Food Production in the German War Economy9 The Mystery of the Dying Dutch: Can Micronutrient Deficiencies Explain the Difference between Danish and Dutch Wartime Mortality?; 10 A View From the Top: Social Elites and Food Consumption in Britain, 1930s-1940s; 11 Popular Morality and the Black Market in Britain, 1939-1955; 12 Food and the Food Crisis in Post-War Germany, 1945-1948: British Policy and the Role of British NGOs; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
9780230597495
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars
Sprache:
Englisch
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