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

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Editors:
  1. Frank Trentmann

    1. Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

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  2. Flemming Just

    1. University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Frank Trentmann, Flemming Just
    Pages 1-12

  3. Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, c.1890s–1950

    • Frank Trentmann
    Pages 13-48

  4. Consumption and Total Warfare in Paris (1914–1918)

    • Thierry Bonzon
    Pages 49-64

  5. Food Provision and Food Retailing in The Hague, 1914–1930

    • Thimo de Nijs
    Pages 65-87

  6. Dictating Food: Autarchy, Food Provision, and Consumer Politics in Fascist Italy, 1922–1943

    • Alexander Nützenadel
    Pages 88-108

  7. Stalin, Soviet Agriculture, and Collectivisation

    • Mark B. Tauger
    Pages 109-142

  8. Brown Bread for Victory: German and British Wholemeal Politics in the Inter-War Period

    • Uwe Spiekermann
    Pages 143-171

  9. Danish Food Production in the German War Economy

    • Mogens R. Nissen
    Pages 172-192

  10. The Mystery of the Dying Dutch: Can Micronutrient Deficiencies Explain the Difference between Danish and Dutch Wartime Mortality?

    • Ralf Futselaar
    Pages 193-222

  11. A View From the Top: Social Elites and Food Consumption in Britain, 1930s–1940s

    • Paul Brassley, Angela Potter
    Pages 223-242

  12. Popular Morality and the Black Market in Britain, 1939–1955

    • Mark Roodhouse
    Pages 243-265

  13. Food and the Food Crisis in Post-War Germany, 1945–1948: British Policy and the Role of British NGOs

    • Johannes-Dieter Steinert
    Pages 266-288

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 289-296
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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.

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'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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Birkbeck College, University of London, UK

    Frank Trentmann

  • University of Southern Denmark, Esbjerg, Denmark

    Flemming Just

About the editors

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

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