[12] October 24 - Food, nutrition, and provision
Section outline
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Presentation: Dylan
Assigned reading:
Maureen Healy, "Food and the politics of sacrifice," Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I (2004): 31-72. Further reading:
Hedwig Heyl, Kleines Kriegskochbuch (1914).
Alfred Maylander, "Food situation in Central Europe, 1917" Bulletin of the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics no. 242 (1918).
Belinda J. Davis, Homes Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (2000).
Claire Morelon, "Black markets, green expeditions: Food shortages and growing divisions," in Streetscapes of War and Revolution: Prague, 1914-1920 (2024).
Lars T. Lih, Bread and Authority in Russia, 1914-1921 (1990).
Iaroslav Golubinov, "Food and nutrition (Russian Empire)," International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
Ernst Langthaler, "Food and nutrition (Austria-Hungary)," International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
Melanie Schulze-Tanielian, "Food and nutrition (Ottoman Empire/Middle East)," International Encyclopedia of the First World War.
Image: "The dance around the golden calf" [click to enlarge]