Feeding Occupied France During World War I
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| Author | : Clotilde Druelle |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 364 |
| Release | : 2019-03-13 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3030055639 |
This book examines the history of Herbert Hoover’s Commission for Relief in Belgium, which supplied humanitarian aid to the millions of civilians trapped behind German lines in Belgium and Northern France during World War I. Here, Clotilde Druelle focuses on the little-known work of the CRB in Northern France, crossing continents and excavating neglected archives to tell the story of daily life under Allied blockade in the region. She shows how the survival of 2.3 million French civilians came to depend upon the transnational mobilization of a new sort of diplomatic actor—the non-governmental organization. Lacking formal authority, the leaders of the CRB claimed moral authority, introducing the concepts of a “humanitarian food emergency” and “humanitarian corridors” and ushering in a new age of international relations and American hegemony.
| Author | : Guido Alfani |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 339 |
| Release | : 2017-08-31 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107179939 |
The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.
| Author | : Herbert Hoover |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 374 |
| Release | : 1964 |
| Genre | : International relief |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : J.F. Murray |
| Publisher | : Karger Medical and Scientific Publishers |
| Total Pages | : 242 |
| Release | : 2018-03-27 |
| Genre | : Medical |
| ISBN | : 331806095X |
Tuberculosis (TB) remains the largest cause of adult deaths from any single infectious disease, and ranks among the top 10 causes of death worldwide. When TB and war occur simultaneously, the inevitable consequences are disease, human misery, suffering, and heightened mortality. TB is, therefore, one of the most frequent and deadly diseases to complicate the special circumstances of warfare. Written by internationally acclaimed experts, this book provides a comprehensive analysis of the status of TB before, during and after WWII in the 25 belligerent countries that were chiefly involved. It summarizes the history of TB up to the present day. A special chapter on “Nazi Medicine, Tuberculosis and Genocide” examines the horrendous, inhuman Nazi ideology, which during WWII used TB as a justification for murder, and targeted the disease by eradicating millions who were afflicted by it. The final chapter summarizes the lessons learned from WWII and more recent wars and recommends anti-TB measures for future conflicts. This publication is not only of interest to TB specialists and pulmonologists but also to those interested in public health, infectious diseases, war-related issues and the history of medicine. It should also appeal to nonmedical readers like journalists and politicians.
| Author | : John Horne |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 314 |
| Release | : 1997-07-03 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521561129 |
This is a volume of comparative essays on the First World War that focuses on one central feature: the political and cultural "mobilization" of the populations of the main belligerent countries in Europe behind the war. It explores how and why they supported the war for so long (as soldiers and civilians), why that support weakened in the face of the devastation of trench warfare, and why states with a stronger degree of political support and national integration (such as Britain and France) were ultimately successful.
| Author | : Tatjana Tönsmeyer |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 320 |
| Release | : 2018-06-22 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 3319774670 |
This volume demonstrates how German expansion in the Second World War II led to shortages, of food and other necessities including medicine, for the occupied populations, causing many to die from severe hunger or starvation. While the various chapters look at a range of topics, the main focus is on the experiences of ordinary people under occupation; their everyday life, and how this quickly became dominated by the search for supplies and different strategies to fight scarcity. The book discusses various such strategies for surviving increasingly catastrophic circumstances, ranging from how people dealt with rationing systems, to the use of substitute products and recycling, barter, black-marketeering and smuggling, and even survival prostitution. In addressing examples from Norway to Greece and from France to Russia, this volume offers the first pan-European perspective on the history of shortage, malnutrition and hunger resulting from the war, occupation, and aggressive German exploitation policies.
| Author | : Julia S. Torrie |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 291 |
| Release | : 2018-10-11 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 1108471285 |
Occupations past and present -- Consuming the tastes and pleasures of France -- Touring and writing about occupied land -- Capturing experiences: and photo books -- Rising tensions -- Westweich perceptions of "softness"; among soldiers in France -- Twilight of the gods
| Author | : Jay Winter |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 646 |
| Release | : 1999-07-08 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9780521668149 |
This ambitious volume marks a huge step in our understanding of the social history of the Great War. Jay Winter and Jean-Louis Robert have gathered a group of scholars of London, Paris and Berlin, who collectively have drawn a coherent and original study of cities at war. The contributors explore notions of well-being in wartime cities - relating to the economy and the question of whether the state of the capitals contributed to victory or defeat. Expert contributors in fields stretching from history, demography, anthropology, economics, and sociology to the history of medicine, bring an interdisciplinary approach to the book, as well as representing the best of recent research in their own fields. Capital Cities at War, one of the few truly comparative works on the Great War, will transform studies of the conflict, and is likely to become a paradigm for research on other wars.
| Author | : Emmanuel Destenay |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 309 |
| Release | : 2024-06-30 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1009517899 |
An exploration of how Americans evaded neutrality by sponsoring 300,000 children of France's war dead between 1914 and 1921.
| Author | : Elisabeth Piller |
| Publisher | : Manchester University Press |
| Total Pages | : 279 |
| Release | : 2023-10-17 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1526173239 |
This book provides fresh perspectives on a key period in the history of humanitarianism. Drawing on economic, cultural, social and diplomatic perspectives, it explores the scale and meaning of humanitarianism in the era of the Great War. Foregrounding the local and global dimensions of the humanitarian responses, it interrogates the entanglement of humanitarian and political interests and uncovers the motivations and agency of aid donors, relief workers and recipients. The chapters probe the limits of humanitarian engagement in a period of unprecedented violence and suffering and evaluate its long-term impact on humanitarian action.
