Franco's famine malnutrition, disease and starvation in post-civil war Spain

"At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to achieve this. Top...

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Weitere Verfasser: Arco Blanco, Miguel Ángel del (HerausgeberIn), Anderson, Peter 1964- (HerausgeberIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: New York ; London ; Oxford ; New Delhi ; Sydney Bloomsbury Academic 2021
Ausgabe:First edition
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: Famine, not hunger? / Miguel Angel del Arco Blanco and Peter Anderson
  • Part 1: Famine and malnutrition in Spain: Political and socio-economic conditions
  • The famine that 'never' existed: Causes of the Spanish famine / Miguel Angel del Arco Blanco
  • Agricultural crisis and food crisis in early Francoism: Hunger seen through the lens of biophysics / Manuel Gonzalez de Molina, David Soto Fernandez, Juan Infante Amate and Antonio Herrera
  • Tracing the physical consequences of famine and malnutrition in Franco's Spain / Jose Miguel Martinez-Carrion and Javier Puche Gil
  • Part II: Famine, Poverty and daily life
  • Iniquitous famine: Marginalized mothers and children / Peter Anderson
  • When there was nothing. An ethnography of the years of hunger in post-war Extremadura: Memory and representation of scarcity / David Conde Caballero, Lorenzo Mariano Juarez and Julian Lopez Garcia
  • 'Picaros De Posguerra'. Turning to crime to survive famine and malnutrition in early Francoism (1939-52) / Gloria Roman Ruiz
  • Part III: International responses
  • 'Starving Spain': International humanitarian responses to Franco's famine / David Brydan
  • Part IV: The politics of cooking
  • The production of autarkic subjectivities: Food discourse in Franco's Spain (1939-59) / Lara Anderson
  • A recipe for rationing: Women, cooking and scarcity during the early Franco dictatorship, 1939-47 / Suzanne Dunai
  • Part V: Memories of malnutrition and famine
  • Remembering the Spanish famine: Official discourse and the popular memory of hunger during Francoism / Claudio Hernandez Burgos and Gloria Roman Ruiz