Modern hungers : food and power in twentieth-century Germany / Alice Weinreb.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Weinreb, Alice, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Germany--Political aspects--History--20th century.

Food supply.

Food industry and trade--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Food industry and trade.

Food--Political aspects--Germany--History--20th century.

Food.

Germany--Politics and government--20th century.

Germany.

Germany--Social conditions--20th century.

Germany--Economic conditions--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (329 pages)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Summary:

This text 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Modern hungers in modern Germany

The geopolitics of total war : food in the First World War

Blood and soil : the food economy and the Nazi racial state

Hunger and the remaking of history : rationing, suffering, and human rights in occupied Germany

Fueling Reconstruction : production and consumption in divided Germany

Kitchen debates : the family meal and female labor in East and West Germany

Fighting fat : obesity and the healthy body in the late Cold War

Epilogue: Yes, we have no bananas : negotiating past and future in reunified Germany.

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2017.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-060511-1

0-19-060512-X

0-19-060510-3