Wheat at war : allied economic cooperation in the Great War / Rosella Cappella Zielinski, Paul Poast.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cappella Zielinski, Rosella, Author.

Poast, Paul, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Allied Maritime Transport Council.

World War, 1914-1918--Food supply.

World War, 1914-1918.

World War, 1914-1918--Economic aspects.

Wheat trade--Law and legislation.

Wheat trade.

Food supply and war.

International trade--History.

Wheat trade--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 211 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Allied economic cooperation in the Great War

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2025]

Summary:

"While the limits of manpower and steadiness of morale were being tested on the battlefields of the Somme and Verdun, the allied powers of France, Britain, and Italy faced a more fundamental problem: how to ensure their soldiers and civilian populations were fed. Wheat at War explores how the story of how the Allies coordinated wheat and shipping in World War I. The desperation of the situation led the allies to eventually create the Wheat Executive in late 1916, an international body imbued with the authority to make shipping and wheat distribution decisions on behalf of all the allies. This book traces the allied efforts from early war precursors to the Wheat Executive, to the creation of the Wheat Executive itself, and then how the Wheat Executive was eventually extended to become the Allied Maritime Trade Council late in the war. The book also explores how the isolationist streak that kept the Americans out of the League of Nations and a general desire on the part of the victors to return to business as usual after the war led the allied powers to eventually pull back from their embrace of supranational management of global economic affairs"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Why wheat and the first World War?

Necessity and willingness: a guiding framework

Retaining authority: The CIR and the Joint Committee

Ceding authority: The Wheat Executive

Sharing authority: The Allied Maritime Transport Council

Reclaiming Authority: The Supreme Economic Council

Conclusions and implications.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 07, 2025).

Other Format:

Print version: Cappella Zielinski, Rosella Wheat at war

ISBN:

9780197812778

0197812775

9780197812754

0197812759

0197812767

9780197812761

OCLC:

1528569754