BIBFRAME Work

Title

The politics of famine in European history and memory

Type

• Text
• Monograph

Contribution

• Zwarte, Ingrid de, 1988- (editor)
• Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel del (editor)

Subject

• Food supply--Political aspects--Europe--History--20th century (LCSH)
• Famines--Europe--History--20th century (LCSH)

Language

• eng

Classification

• DDC: 363.8094 (Assigner: dlc)
• LCC: HC240.9.F3 P65 2025 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: uba)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• bibliography
• index

Summary

"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 are instrumentalized as a political and military tool. Contributions to this volume show the complexities, variations, and motivations in which famines have been instrumentalized by political actors and regimes, and how the politics of perpetrating hunger and the politics of relieving it have often been entwined. 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, informed 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"-- Provided by publisher.

Table of Contents

Introduction. The politics of famine in European history and memory / Ingrid de Zwarte and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco -- The Autarkic policy : the origin of the Spanish Famine, 1939-42, 1946 / Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco -- War, occupation and the politics of causing and fighting hunger in World War II / Tatjana Tönsmeyer -- Food crises, extreme hunger and famine in Russia and the USSR / Stephen Wheatcroft and Filip Slaveski -- Centre-periphery relations in the Soviet post-war famine of 1946-47 / Filip Slaveski, Iurii Shapoval and Igor Cașu -- The Allied blockade and British politics of food and famine during World War II / Ingrid de Zwarte and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco -- Humanitarian action : a moral economic periodization of famine relief / Norbert Götz, Georgina Brewis and Steffen Werther -- Fight the famine : American Quakers and child feeding in Germany after the First World War / Daniel Maul -- Famine, trauma and memory. Commemorating the Great Irish Famine in the 1990s / Cormac Ó Gráda -- "I haven't eaten so well for so long!" : representations of the Allied blockade of Germany in German textbooks and film, 1914-32 / Mary Elisabeth Cox and Anne van Mourik -- Heritages of hunger in Europe : transnational matter for the present day / Marguérite Corporaal -- Afterword. Famines and power, past and present / Alex de Waal.

Authorized Access Point

The politics of famine in European history and memory

Geographic Coverage

• Europe

Admin Metadata

• Date: 2026-09-30T22:40:26.760435+00:00
• Agent: cbc
• Status: c
• Derived from: 24092017

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• Date: 2026-09-30
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• Description level: http://id.loc.gov/ontologies/bibframe-2-6-0/
• Description language: eng
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