Home Fires Burning

Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

Belinda J. Davis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

368 Seiten

2000 | New edition
The University of North Carolina Press (Verlag)
978-0-8078-4837-1 (ISBN)

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Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, this book uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace, particularly poorer women, on 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 of beleaguered consumers, interceding actively in food distribution and production. But offcials' actions were much more effective in legitimating popular demands than in defending the state's right to rule. In the end, argues Davis, this dynamic fundamentally reformulated relations between state and society and contributed to the state's downfall in 1918.

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

Erscheint lt. Verlag	30.4.2000
Verlagsort	Chapel Hill
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	583 g
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918)
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-8078-4837-9 / 0807848379
ISBN-13	978-0-8078-4837-1 / 9780807848371
Zustand	Neuware