Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
Title | Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Fonzi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 432 |
Release | 2024-09-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 135033393X |
The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages. Food, most noticeably, became a scarcity in everyday life; and that food grew into a major stake for all political groups at this time. This book shines a much-needed spotlight on the political role of food in Southeastern Europe from 1939 to 1945. Controlling food was a key strategy adopted by all actors – be they occupiers, state institutions, resistance organizations, international humanitarian organizations or private interest groups – in substantiating their bid for power. As a predominantly agrarian area with a substantial peasant population, investigating this topic is particularly poignant for Southeastern Europe. From discussions of searching for and fighting for food to offering relief and instrumentalising of food politically, the chapters in this volume add nuance to discussions on the complex intertwined political and social dynamics of war and occupation. In so doing, this sophisticated study fills an important gap in our understanding of the Second World War, food policy, and the social history of Europe more broadly.
Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War
Title | Food, Scarcity and Power in Southeastern Europe during the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | Paolo Fonzi |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
Pages | 249 |
Release | 2024-09-19 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1350333921 |
The experience of all occupied countries during the Second World War was characterised by severe material shortages. Food, most noticeably, became a scarcity in everyday life; and that food grew into a major stake for all political groups at this time. This book shines a much-needed spotlight on the political role of food in Southeastern Europe from 1939 to 1945. Controlling food was a key strategy adopted by all actors – be they occupiers, state institutions, resistance organizations, international humanitarian organizations or private interest groups – in substantiating their bid for power. As a predominantly agrarian area with a substantial peasant population, investigating this topic is particularly poignant for Southeastern Europe. From discussions of searching for and fighting for food to offering relief and instrumentalising of food politically, the chapters in this volume add nuance to discussions on the complex intertwined political and social dynamics of war and occupation. In so doing, this sophisticated study fills an important gap in our understanding of the Second World War, food policy, and the social history of Europe more broadly.
Famine in European History
Title | Famine in European History PDF eBook |
Author | Guido Alfani |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 339 |
Release | 2017-08-31 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1107179939 |
The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.
Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe
Title | Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe PDF eBook |
Author | LIT Verlag |
Publisher | LIT Verlag |
Pages | 280 |
Release | 2020-01-07 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 3643963270 |
The papers in this volume continue our focus on emotions of people in Southeast Europe. Grief and sadness are, of course, universal, but they take on different forms of expression. Strong emotional values are often attached to specific foods (e.g. the kurban), usually food is of great importance for labour migrants and in times of crisis. Likewise, dress can be of great emotional significance and value. Wars as well as communist collectivization often lead to emotional consequences such as trauma. Smells and tastes can become expressions of actual or remembered emotions, a fact that can also concern the researchers themselves. Klaus Roth is professor em. at the Institute for European Ethnology of Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich. Milena Benovska is professor em. of the Dept. of Ethnology and Balkan Studies of the South-West University of Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria. Ana Luleva is Assoc. Prof. at the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Studies of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences in Sofia.
Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe
Title | Emotions, Senses and Affects in the Context of Southeast Europe PDF eBook |
Author | Klaus Roth |
Publisher | LIT Verlag Münster |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 2022-08 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 3643913273 |
The papers in this volume continue our focus on emotions of people in Southeast Europe. Grief and sadness are, of course, universal, but they take on different forms of expression. Strong emotional values are often attached to specific foods (e.g. the kurban), usually food is of great importance for labour migrants and in times of crisis. Likewise, dress can be of great emotional significance and value. Wars as well as communist collectivization often lead to emotional consequences such as trauma. Smells and tastes can become expressions of actual or remembered emotions, a fact that can also concern the researchers themselves.
Export Empire
Title | Export Empire PDF eBook |
Author | Stephen G. Gross |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2015 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1107112257 |
A major new interpretation of Nazi influence in southeastern Europe through the concepts of soft power and informal empire.
British Cultural Memory and the Second World War
Title | British Cultural Memory and the Second World War PDF eBook |
Author | Lucy Noakes |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 241 |
Release | 2013-11-21 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1441104976 |
Few historical events have resonated as much in modern British culture as the Second World War. It has left a rich legacy in a range of media that continue to attract a wide audience: film, TV and radio, photography and the visual arts, journalism and propaganda, architecture, museums, music and literature. The enduring presence of the war in the public world is echoed in its ongoing centrality in many personal and family memories, with stories of the Second World War being recounted through the generations. This collection brings together recent historical work on the cultural memory of the war, examining its presence in family stories, in popular and material culture and in acts of commemoration in Britain between 1945 and the present.