Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars

FRANK TRENTMANN is Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Birkbeck College, University of London, UK, and Director of the Cultures of Consumption research programme, funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). He has worked on consumption, political culture, and civil society. Recent publications include the edited collections The Making of the Consumer: Knowledge, Power and Identity in the Modern World and Consuming Cultures: Global Perspectives, with John Brewer. FLEMMING JUST is Professor of Contemporar

'Far from something of the distant past, crises surrounding food, its production, distribution, and consumption, marked the lives of Europeans across the continent, throughout the first half of the twentieth century. The remarkably diverse and consistently first-rate contributions to this volume demonstrate this importance, in questions from civil society to state control, globalization, and 'racial' policies. This excellent collection shows who ate, when, and how, and why it mattered.' - Belinda Davis, Rutgers University New Brunswick, USA, and author of Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (2000)

• Food and Conflict in Europe in the Age of the Two World Wars; F.Trentmann & F.Just Coping with Shortage: The Problem of Food Security and Global Visions of Coordination, c. 1890s-1950; F.Trentmann Consumption and Total Warfare in Paris, 1914-18; T.Bonzon Food Provision and Food Retailing in the Hague, 1914-30; T.de Nijs Dictating Food: Autarchy, Food Provision and Consumer Politics in Fascist Italy, 1922-43; A.Nützenadel Stalin, Soviet Agriculture, and Collectivization; M.BTauger Brown Bread for Victory: German and British Wholemeal Politics in the Interwar Period; U.Spiekermann Danish Food in the German War Economy; M.R.Nissen The Mystery of the Dying Dutch: Can Micronutrient Deficiencies Explain the Difference between Danish and Dutch Wartime Mortality?; R.Futselaar A View from the Top: Social Elites and Food Consumption in Britain, 1930s-40s; P.Brassley & A.Potter Popular Morality and the Black Market in Britain, 1939-55; M.Roodhouse Food and the Food Crisis in Post-war Germany, 1945-48: British Policy and the Role of British NGOs; J-D.Steinert