World War On Hunger

Author : Tatjana Tönsmeyer,Peter Haslinger,Agnes Laba
Publisher : Springer
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 52,6 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 : Matthew Richardson
Publisher : Pen and Sword
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 41,9 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 : Rick Blom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 42,9 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 : Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 45,7 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 : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 1496 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Nick Cullather
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 369 pages
File Size : 45,5 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 : Wendy Z. Goldman,Donald A. Filtzer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 49,7 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 : 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 : Heather Merle Benbow,Heather R. Perry
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 289 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2019-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9783030271381

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Food, Culture and Identity in Germany's Century of War by Heather Merle Benbow,Heather R. Perry Pdf

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.

Author : Lizzie Collingham
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 656 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2012-03-29
Category : History
ISBN : 9781101561317

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Taste of War by Lizzie Collingham Pdf

A New York Times Notable Book of 2012 Food, and in particular the lack of it, was central to the experience of World War II. In this richly detailed and engaging history, Lizzie Collingham establishes how control of food and its production is crucial to total war. How were the imperial ambitions of Germany and Japan - ambitions which sowed the seeds of war - informed by a desire for self-sufficiency in food production? How was the outcome of the war affected by the decisions that the Allies and the Axis took over how to feed their troops? And how did the distinctive ideologies of the different combatant countries determine their attitudes towards those they had to feed? Tracing the interaction between food and strategy, on both the military and home fronts, this gripping, original account demonstrates how the issue of access to food was a driving force within Nazi policy and contributed to the decision to murder hundreds of thousands of 'useless eaters' in Europe. Focusing on both the winners and losers in the battle for food, The Taste of War brings to light the striking fact that war-related hunger and famine was not only caused by Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, but was also the result of Allied mismanagement and neglect, particularly in India, Africa and China. American dominance both during and after the war was not only a result of the United States' immense industrial production but also of its abundance of food. This book traces the establishment of a global pattern of food production and distribution and shows how the war subsequently promoted the pervasive influence of American food habits and tastes in the post-war world. A work of great scope, The Taste of War connects the broad sweep of history to its intimate impact upon the lives of individuals.

Author : Rick Blom
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1771124180

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Hunger by Rick Blom Pdf

Author : Gesine Gerhard
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015-09-01
Category : Cooking
ISBN : 9781442227255

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Nazi Hunger Politics by Gesine Gerhard Pdf

During World War II, millions of Soviet soldiers in German captivity died of hunger and starvation. Their fate was not the unexpected consequence of a war that took longer than anticipated. It was the calculated strategy of a small group of economic planners around Herbert Backe, the second Reich Minister for Food and Agriculture. The mass murder of Soviet soldiers and civilians by Nazi food policy has not yet received much attention, but this book is about to change that. Food played a central political role for the Nazi regime and served as the foundation of a racial ideology that justified the murder of millions of Jews, prisoners of war, and Slavs. This book is the first to vividly and comprehensively address the topic of food during the Third Reich. It examines the economics of food production and consumption in Nazi Germany, as well as its use as a justification for war and as a tool for genocide. Offering another perspective on the Nazi regime’s desire for domination, Gesine Gerhard sheds light on an often-overlooked part of their scheme and brings into focus the very important role food played in the course of the Second World War.

Author : E. De la Garza
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 12 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Agricultural assistance, American
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119637317

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

Author : Janam Mukherjee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 43,9 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.

Author : Joseph Collins
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2014-02-04
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134183494

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World Hunger by Joseph Collins Pdf

The revised edition of this text includes substantial new material on hunger in the aftermath of the Cold War; global food productioin versus population growth; changing demographics and falling birth rates around the world; the shifting focus of foreign assistance in the new world order; structural adjustment and other budget-slashing policies; trade liberalization and free trade agreements; famine and humanitarian interventions; and the thrid worldization of developed nations.