Alice Weinreb

Modern Hungers

Food and Power in Twentieth-Century Germany

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Spanning World War I to the fall of the Berlin Wall, Modern Hungers shows how food and hunger have been central to economic policy, political identity, and everyday life in modern Germany. It historicizes contemporary issues ranging from the obesity epidemic to the gender-wage gap to famine relief.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 330
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Oktober 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 154mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 486g
• ISBN-13: 9780190092481
• ISBN-10: 0190092483
• Artikelnr.: 57377809

Autorenporträt

Alice Weinreb is an assistant professor of history at Loyola University Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction Modern Hungers in Modern Germany
* 1. The Geopolitics of Total War: Food in the First World War
* 2. Blood and Soil: The Food Economy and the Nazi Racial State
* 3. Hunger and the Remaking of History: Rationing, Suffering, and
Human
* Rights in Occupied Germany
* 4. Fueling Reconstruction: Production and Consumption in Divided
Germany
* 5. Kitchen Debates: The Family Meal and Female Labor in East and West
* Germany
* 6. 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
* Bibliography
* Index