Introduction: The Politics of Famine
Part1: State Policies and Responses
1. The Autarkic Policy: The Origin of the Spanish Famine, 1939–42, 1946
2. War, Occupation and the Politics of Causing and Fighting Hunger in World War II
3. Food Crises, Extreme Hunger and Famine in Russia and the USSR
4. Centre-Periphery Relations in the Soviet Post-War Famine of 1946–47 Part 2 : The International Politics of Famine and Relief
5. The Allied Blockade and British Politics of Food and Famine During World War II
6. Humanitarian Action: A Moral Economic Periodization of Famine Relief
7. Fight the Famine: American Quakers and Child Feeding in Germany After the First World War
Part3: Politization of Famine Legacies
8. Famine, Trauma and Memory. Commemorating the Great Irish Famine in the 1990s
9. “I Haven’t Eaten So Well for So Long!”: Representations of the Allied Blockade of Germany in German Textbooks and Film, 1914–32
10. Heritages of Hunger in Europe: Transnational Matter for the Present Day. Afterword: Famines and Power, Past and Present