Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

<p>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.</p><p>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.</p><p><i>The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory </i>provides a crucial resource for scholars and students from all disciplines interested in the study of famines as well as those interested in the history of war and troubled pasts more generally.</p><p>The Open Access version of this book available at www.taylorfrancis.com has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (CC-BY-NC-ND) 4.0 license.</p>