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The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

de Zwarte, Ingrid
del Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Modern European History

Eastern European HistoryIrish HistoryRussian History

ISBN10: 1032737573
ISBN13: 9781032737577
Publisher: Routledge
Published: May 15 2025
Pages: 218
Weight: 1.26
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.69 Depth: 9.61
Language: English

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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