1 option
Hunger in war and peace : women and children in Germany, 1914-1924 / Mary Elizabeth Cox.
LIBRA D659.G3 C69 2019
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cox, Mary Elisabeth, 1981- author.
- Series:
- Oxford historical monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Reconstruction (1914-1939)--Germany.
- Reconstruction (1914-1939).
- Women.
- Social conditions.
- Children.
- Economic assistance.
- History.
- Germany.
- World War, 1914-1918--Food supply--Germany.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects--Germany.
- World War, 1914-1918--Social aspects--Germany.
- Economic assistance--Germany--History--20th century.
- Children--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
- Children--Nutrition.
- Women--Germany--Social conditions--20th century.
- Women--Nutrition.
- Germany--History--1871-1918.
- Germany--History--1918-1933.
- Children--Social conditions.
- Economics.
- Food supply.
- Social aspects.
- Women--Social conditions.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 383 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 23 cm.
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.
- Summary:
- At the outbreak of the First World War, Great Britain quickly took steps to initiate a naval blockade against Germany. In addition to military goods and other contraband, foodstuffs and fertilizer were also added to the list of forbidden exports to Germany. As the grip of the Blockade strengthened, Germans complained that civilians-particularly women and children-were going hungry because of it. The impact of the blockade on non-combatants was especially fraught during the eight month period of the Armistice when the blockade remained in force. Even though fighting had stopped, German civilians wondered how they would go through another winter of hunger. The issue became internationalised as civic leaders across the country wrote books, pamphlets, and articles about their distress, and begged for someone to step in and relieve German women and children with food aid. Their pleas were answered with an outpouring of generosity from across the world. Some have argued, then and since, that these outcries were based on gross exaggerations based more on political need rather than actual want. This book examines what the actual nutritional statuses of women and children in Germany were during and following the War. Mary Cox uses detailed height and weight data for over 600,000 German children to show the true measure of overall deprivation, and to gauge infant recovery.
- Contents:
- 1 The First World War and the Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919 p. 17
- 2 German Responses to Food Scarcity p. 65
- 3 Nutritional Deprivation in Urban Leipzig p. 85
- 4 Were Rural Germans Better Off Than Urban Citizens During the War? The Case of Straßburg p. 135
- 5 Nutritional Deprivation of Children Across Germany p. 171
- 6 Armistice and Blockade: November 1918-July 1919 p. 205
- 7 Nutritional Deprivation after the Fighting: November 1918-July 1919 p. 241
- 8 From Blockade to Aid: July 1919-1924 p. 275
- 9 German Children's Response to Aid p. 339.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0198820119
- 9780198820116
- OCLC:
- 1061819883
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.