Hunger And War

Author : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2015-10-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781473827493

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The Hunger War by Matthew Richardson Pdf

In the First World War the supply of food to civilians became as significant a factor in final victory as success or defeat on the battlefields. Never before had the populations of entire countries lived under siege conditions, yet this extraordinary situation is often overlooked as a decisive factor in the outcome of the conflict. Matthew Richardson, in this highly readable and original comparative study, looks at the food supply situation on the British, German, French, Russian and Italian home fronts, as well as on the battlefields. His broad perspective contrasts with some narrower approaches to the subject, and brings a fresh insight into the course of the war on all the major fronts. He explores the causes of food shortages, as well as the ways in which both combatant and neutral nations attempted to overcome them. He looks at widely differing attitudes towards alcohol during the war, and the social impacts of food shortages, as well as the ways in which armies attempted to victual their troops in the field.

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780253017161

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Hunger and War by Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer Pdf

Drawing on recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food; feeding the Red army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and malnutrition in other home front industrial regions. New research reported here challenges and complicates many of the narratives and counter-narratives about the war. The authors engage such difficult subjects as starvation mortality, bitterness over privation and inequalities in provisioning, and conflicts among state organizations. At the same time, they recognize the considerable role played by the Soviet state in organizing supplies of food to adequately support the military effort and defense production and in developing policies that promoted social stability amid upheaval. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population's experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine.

Author : Rick Blom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-08
Category : History
ISBN : 1771124172

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Hunger by Rick Blom Pdf

Hunger focuses on the role of food, or the lack of it, in the First World War. Diary quotes, historical accounts, and the author's own re-enactments combine for a gripping, at times harrowing read.

Author : Joanna Macrae
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022856871

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War and Hunger by Joanna Macrae Pdf

The authors explore ways in which warfare creates hunger. The cases of Angola, Sudan, Tigray, Eritrea, Mozambique and Somalia illuminate the nature of complex emergencies in situations of war. Other chapters focus on the reforms required of the UN's machinery, reassess the role of relief in time of war, and ask how the international community should respond to the new circumstances of post-Cold War international interventions.

Author : E. De la Garza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 14 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Food relief, American
ISBN : UOM:39015031831483

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The War We Must Not Lose by E. De la Garza Pdf

Author : Nick Cullather
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011-04-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780674058828

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The Hungry World by Nick Cullather Pdf

Food was a critical front in the Cold War battle for Asia. “Where Communism goes, hunger follows” was the slogan of American nation builders who fanned out into the countryside to divert rivers, remodel villages, and introduce tractors, chemicals, and genes to multiply the crops consumed by millions. This “green revolution” has been credited with averting Malthusian famines, saving billions of lives, and jump-starting Asia’s economic revival. Bono and Bill Gates hail it as a model for revitalizing Africa’s economy. But this tale of science triumphant conceals a half century of political struggle from the Afghan highlands to the rice paddies of the Mekong Delta, a campaign to transform rural societies by changing the way people eat and grow food. The ambition to lead Asia into an age of plenty grew alongside development theories that targeted hunger as a root cause of war. Scientific agriculture was an instrument for molding peasants into citizens with modern attitudes, loyalties, and reproductive habits. But food policies were as contested then as they are today. While Kennedy and Johnson envisioned Kansas-style agribusiness guarded by strategic hamlets, Indira Gandhi, Marcos, and Suharto inscribed their own visions of progress onto the land. Out of this campaign, the costliest and most sustained effort for development ever undertaken, emerged the struggles for resources and identity that define the region today. As Obama revives the lost arts of Keynesianism and counter-insurgency, the history of these colossal projects reveals bitter and important lessons for today’s missions to feed a hungry world.

Author : Tatjana Tönsmeyer,Peter Haslinger,Agnes Laba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9783319774671

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Coping with Hunger and Shortage under German Occupation in World War II by Tatjana Tönsmeyer,Peter Haslinger,Agnes Laba Pdf

This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the various chapters look at a range of topics, the main focus is on the experiences of ordinary people under occupation; their everyday life, and how this quickly became dominated by the search for supplies and different strategies to fight scarcity. The book discusses various such strategies for surviving increasingly catastrophic circumstances, ranging from how people dealt with rationing systems, to the use of substitute products and recycling, barter, black-marketeering and smuggling, and even survival prostitution. In addressing examples from Norway to Greece and from France to Russia, this volume offers the first pan-European perspective on the history of shortage, malnutrition and hunger resulting from the war, occupation, and aggressive German exploitation policies.

Author : Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 0253017122

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Hunger and War by Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer Pdf

"Making use of recently released Soviet archival materials, Hunger and War investigates state food supply policy and its impact on Soviet society during World War II. It explores the role of the state in provisioning the urban population, particularly workers, with food, and in feeding the Red army; the medicalization of hunger; hunger in blockaded Leningrad; and civilian mortality from hunger and malnutrition in other home front industrial regions. New research reported here challenges and complicates many of the narratives and counter-narratives about the war. The authors engage such difficult subjects as starvation mortality, bitterness over privation and inequalities in provisioning, and conflicts among state organizations. At the same time, they recognize the considerable role played by the Soviet state in organizing supplies of food to adequately support the military effort and defense production, and in developing policies that promoted social stability amid upheaval. The book makes a significant contribution to scholarship on the Soviet population's experience of World War II as well as to studies of war and famine"--Provided by publisher.

Author : E. Wayne Nafziger,Frances Stewart,Raimo Väyrynen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-19
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780191589133

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War, Hunger, and Displacement: by E. Wayne Nafziger,Frances Stewart,Raimo Väyrynen Pdf

Since the end of the cold war, the number of civil wars in developing countries has escalated to the point where they are the most significant source of human suffering in the world today. Although there are many political analyses of these emergencies, this two-volume work is the first comprehensive study of the economic, social, and political roots of humanitarian emergencies, identifying early measures to prevent such disasters. Nafziger, Stewart, and V--auml--;yrynen draw on a wide range of specialists on the political economy of war and on major conflicts to show the causes of conflict. The first volume provides a general overview of the nature and causes of the emergencies, including economic, political, and environmental factors. The second volume provides detailed case studies of thirteen conflicts (including Rwanda, Burundi, the Congo, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus) that originated in the weakness of the state or where economic factors predominate. The volumes emphasize the significance of protracted economic stagnation and decline, high and increasing inequality, government exclusion of distinct social groups, state failure and predatory rule. They debunk beliefs recurrent in the literature that emergencies are the result of deteriorating environmental conditions, structural adjustment, and deep-seated ethnic animosity. By analysing the causes and prevention of war and humanitarian emergencies in developing countries, this work outlines a less costly alternative to the present strategy of the world community of spending millions of dollars annually to provide mediation, relief, and rehabilitation after the conflict occurs.

Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781509524709

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Mass Starvation by Alex de Waal Pdf

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.

Author : Rob Currie
Publisher : Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-03-03
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9781496440372

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Hunger Winter by Rob Currie Pdf

“I read this book with great interest. I would love to encourage everyone to read this book.” —Frits Nieuwstraten, Director, Corrie ten Boom House Foundation The thrilling story of one boy’s quest to find his father and protect his younger sister during the great Dutch famine of World War II. “Sometimes you have to take a chance, because it’s the only chance you have.” Thirteen-year-old Dirk has been the man of the house since his papa disappeared while fighting against the Nazis with the Dutch Resistance. When the Gestapo arrests Dirk’s older sister, who is also a Resistance fighter, Dirk fears that he and his little sister, Anna, might be next. With only pockets full of food and his sister asleep in his arms, Dirk runs away to find his father. As Dirk leads Anna across the war-torn Netherlands, from farmyards to work camps, he must rely on his wits and his father’s teaching to find his way.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 278 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Food supply
ISBN : OSU:32435054988399

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War on Hunger by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul Erdkamp
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2023-01-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004525818

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Hunger and the Sword by Paul Erdkamp Pdf

Roman wars, like those of later times, took place in a landscape - a landscape not only consisting of mountains, plains and rivers, but also of men tilling the soil, travelling across sea or land, or employing other means in their struggle for survival (and even happiness). This book undertakes to examine Roman wars in this context of the natural and human environment. Roman warfare is generally examined from the vierpoint of the ancient authors on whose narratives our understanding depends. As a consequence, however, Roman wars seem to have become events that took place on the pages of a book rather than in the environment of the Mediterranean world. The way Roman wars were fought was determined by the geography and climate of the Mediterranean peninsulas, by the ecological restraints on agriculture and transport, and by the economic and social structures of the society of which the armies were a significant part. This book relates warfare to one of the main conditions of survival: it examines on the one hand the food supply of the many thousands that manned the Roman armies, and on the other the impact of war on the food supply of those people not waging war.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2021-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004461840

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Fighting Hunger, Dealing with Shortage (2 vols) by Anonim Pdf

This collection of primary sources for the first time gives a pan-European insight into the experiences of ordinary people living under German occupation during World War II, their everyday life, their search for supplies and their strategies to fight scarcity.

Author : Janam Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : History
ISBN : 9780190209889

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Hungry Bengal by Janam Mukherjee Pdf

Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.