The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

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 are instrumentalized as a political and military tool.

Ingrid de Zwarte is Assistant Professor of Economic and Environmental History at Wageningen University. Her research focuses on the central role of food and famine in modern warfare. She is the author of The Hunger Winter: Fighting Famine in the Occupied Netherlands, 1944--45 (Cambridge UP, 2020).
Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco is Full Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Granada. His work focuses on the study of fascism, memory, the Spanish Civil War, and post-war Francoism. Currently, he is working on a book about the Spanish Famine.