{"product_id":"politics-of-famine-in-european-history-and-memory","title":"Politics of Famine in European History and Memory","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Politics of Famine in European History and Memory \u003c\/i\u003eprovides 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Taylor \u0026 Francis Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54260603847000,"sku":"9781032737577","price":192.2,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9781032737577.jpg?v=1768050054","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/politics-of-famine-in-european-history-and-memory","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}