The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory
Ingrid de Zwarte, "The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory "
English | ISBN: 1032737573 | 2025 | 218 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
English | ISBN: 1032737573 | 2025 | 218 pages | EPUB | 8 MB
This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory of famine is instrumentalized as a political and military tool.
Contributions to this volume reveal the complexities, variations, and motivations behind the instrumentalization of famine by political actors and regimes, and how the politics of perpetrating hunger and the politics of relieving it have often been intertwined. They also address how famine legacies have been subsequently politicized in public debates, educational practices, and popular media; and how these socially and politically constructed memories and myths, in turn, have shaped broader narratives about hunger and humanitarianism both in history and today.
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