Modern Hungers
Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 23167384 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Alexander Weinreb (0000-0003-2441-4040, corresponding author), Alice Weinreb |
| Year | 2017 |
| Pages | 312 |
| Publication date | 2017-06-22 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Modern Hungers (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190605094.001.0001 |
| OpenAlex | W4230575614 |
| ISBN | 9780190605094 |
| Open Library | OL28630940M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
This book explores Germany’s role in the two world wars and the Cold War to analyze the food economy of the twentieth century. It argues that controlling food supply and determining how and what people ate shaped the course of these three wars. Because Germany played a central role in these conflicts, the political and economic ambitions of its changing governments had international ramifications. At the same time, focusing on changing methods of cooking, shopping, and eating reveals the politics that shape everyday life, especially women's daily activities. Each chapter focuses on a specific era to unpack particular components of the modern food system. The book argues that hunger was key to military strategy in the First World War and to discourses human rights during the Allied occupation, while showing how food rationing shaped race during the Third Reich. The second half of the book compares East Germany (GDR) and West Germany (FRG), revealing similarities as well as differences between the socialist and capitalist food systems. Bringing together a diverse array of sources ranging from cookbooks to complaint letters, political speeches to nutritional studies, Modern Hungers offers historical context for many key concerns of the current age, from food aid and the struggle to end famine to contemporary obesity epidemics
Context (archaeology) · Economic history · Economics · Economy · Famine · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Rationing · Sociology · World War II · European history and politics · History · Law · Economic conditions · Food · Food industry and trade · Food supply · Germany · Hunger · Political aspects · politics and government · Power (Social sciences) · Social aspects · Social conditions
Visualising the Modern Housewife
State socialist vs. (neo-)liberal governmentality? Weight loss TV shows and the fight against fatness in East and West Germany, 1970s–1980s
I didn't realize that food holds such an important place in our lives’
Food–gender relationship on the backdrop of war
Ingrained habits
Textbooks, hunger, and humanitarian narratives
Calculating war, calculating peace
World War I and the Origins of the Modern Food System
Many Mouths
Food and Drink and the War of Words During the Great War
Introduction
Cohesive Difference
| Citations per year | 1.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2026 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |