Home Fires Burning Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

Name: Home Fires Burning Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
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ISBN: 9780807848371

ISBN-10: 0807848379

ISBN-13: 9780807848371

Edition: 2000

Authors: Belinda J. Davis

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Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populaceparticularly poorer womenon German domestic and even military policy during World War I. As Britain's wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by "women of little means" broke out in the streets of Berlin and other German cities. These "street scenes" riveted public attention and drew urban populations together across class lines to make formidable, apparently unified demands on the German state. Imperial authorities responded in unprecedented fashion in the interests…

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List price: $47.50
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication date: 4/24/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.12" wide x 9.25" long x 0.82" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English

Belinda J. Davis is associate professor of history at Rutgers University.



Maps ... Figures


Acknowledgments


Home Fires Burning


Introduction



Germany from Peace to War



Bread, Cake, and Just Deserts



Women of Lesser Means



Battles over Butter



One View of How Politics Worked in World War I Berlin



A Food Dictatorship



Soup, Stew, and Eating German



Food for the Weak, Food for the Strong



The End of Faith



Germany from War to Peace?


Conclusion


Notes


Bibliography


Index