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Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War

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Editors:
  1. Heather Merle Benbow

    1. University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

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  2. Heather R. Perry

    1. University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

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  • Examines the social, cultural and emotional significance of food and hunger in World War I, World War II and the Global Cold War

  • Analyzes Germany’s modern wars through food-centered perspectives and experiences “from below”

  • Moves beyond the “hot zones” of armed conflict to consider spaces such as public kitchens, occupation zones, medical encounters and reconstruction programs

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Hunger Pangs: The Contours of Violence and Food Scarcity in Germany’s Twentieth-Century Wars

    • Heather Merle Benbow, Heather R. Perry
    Pages 1-16

  3. Onward Kitchen Soldiers! Gender, Food and Health in Germany’s Long Great War

    • Heather R. Perry
    Pages 17-43

  4. Food, Drink and Hunger for World War I German Soldiers

    • Heather Merle Benbow
    Pages 45-74

  5. Public Feeding in the First World War: Berlin’s First Public Kitchen System

    • Jenny Sprenger-Seyffarth
    Pages 75-102

  6. Coping with Hunger in the Ghettos: The Impact of Nazi Racialized Food Policy

    • Helene J. Sinnreich
    Pages 103-124

  7. Bee Stings and Beer: The Significance of Food in Alabamian POW Newspapers

    • Christine Rinne
    Pages 125-152

  8. The Productive Heimat: Territorial Loss and Rurality in German Identity at the Stunde Null

    • Christine Fojtik
    Pages 153-175

  9. Postwar Food Rumors: Security, Victimhood and Fear

    • Laura J. Hilton
    Pages 177-200

  10. The Taste of Defeat: Food, Peace and Power in US-Occupied Germany

    • Kaete O’Connell
    Pages 201-225

  11. Cold (Beer) War: The German Volksgetränk in East German Rhetoric (1945–1971)

    • John Gillespie
    Pages 227-246

  12. Brewing Global Relations During the Cold War: Coffee, East Germans and Southeast Asia, 1978–1990

    • Andrew Kloiber
    Pages 247-270

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 271-280
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About this book

Even in the harsh conditions of total war, food is much more than a daily necessity, however scarce—it is social glue and an identity marker, a form of power and a weapon of war. This collection examines the significance of food and hunger in Germany’s turbulent twentieth century. Food-centered perspectives and experiences “from below” reveal the social, cultural and political consequences of three conflicts that defined the twentieth century: the First and Second World Wars and the ensuing global Cold War. Emerging and established scholars examine the analytical salience of food in the context of twentieth-century Germany while pushing conventional temporal frameworks and disciplinary boundaries. Together, these chapters interrogate the ways in which deeper studies of food culture in Germany can shed new light on old wars.

Editors and Affiliations

  • University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia

    Heather Merle Benbow

  • University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Charlotte, USA

    Heather R. Perry

About the editors

Heather Merle Benbow is a scholar of German Studies at the University of Melbourne, Australia.


Heather R. Perry is Associate Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, USA.


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