Nourishing victory : food shortages and post-imperial transition in the Bohemian lands and Slovenia / edited by Václav Šmidrkal and Rok Stergar

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Šmidrkal, Václav, editor.

Stergar, Rok, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Food supply--Czech Republic--Bohemia--History--20th century.

Food supply.

Bohemia (Czech Republic)--Social conditions--20th century.

Bohemia (Czech Republic).

Slovenia--Social conditions--20th century.

Slovenia.

Austria--Politics and government--1867-1918.

Austria.

Austria--Politics and government--1918-1938.

Politics and government.

Social conditions.

Czech Republic--Bohemia.

Genre:

History

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Budapest : CEU Press, [2026]

System Details:

digital

Summary:

"The aggravating food shortage was the central internal crisis in Habsburg Austria during the First World War and posed a major challenge to the consolidation of the successor states. Nourishing Victory offers a fresh comparative perspective on food and the collapse and rebuilding of political legitimacy from the regional vantage point of the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia before and after 1918. Zooming in on multiple levels of society, the book explores how politicians, local officials, and grassroots protagonists navigated collapsing supply systems, relied on black markets, and sought to make sense of the chaos around them. Since this was a crisis of international proportions, the book also examines foreign food aid and the contradictions it entailed. At the same time, to emphasize the local dynamics of food supply and political legitimacy, it explores how food became a political weapon in struggles over contested borderlands such as Teschen Silesia and Prekmurje"-- De Gruyter Brill

Contents:

Introduction : Food shortages and shifting loyalties / Václav Šmidrkal and Rok Stergar

Breaking the state : Food, hunger, and power in war / Maja Godina Golija and Václav Šmidrkal

Building the state : Hunger, anger, and postwar consolidation / Václav Šmidrkal and Maja Godina Golija

Hopes, promises, realities : Food scarcity and foreign aid / Dagmar Hájková and Rok Stergar

Nourishing contested borderlands / Pavel Horák and Jernej Kosi

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed September 3, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version: Nourishing victory

ISBN:

9789633869192

9633869196

9789048575657

9048575656

9781042009534

1042009538

OCLC:

1561549458

Access Restriction:

Some versions: Open access versions available from some providers open access