Franco's famine : malnutrition, disease and starvation in post-civil war Spain / [edited by] Peter Anderson and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco.

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ISBN:

9781350174672

9781350174665

Title:

Franco's famine : malnutrition, disease and starvation in post-civil war Spain / [edited by] Peter Anderson and Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco.

Author:

Blanco, Miguel ℓngel del Arco, editor.

Edition:

First edition.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (288 pages).

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Introduction: famine not hunger? / Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco (University of Granada, Spain) and Peter Anderson (University of Leeds, UK) -- 1. Famine and malnutrition in Spain: political and socio-economic conditions, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco (University of Granada, Spain) -- 2. Agricultural crisis and food crisis in early francoism / Manuel González Molina, David Soto, Juan Infante and Antonio Herrera (all University Pablo de Olavide, Seville, Spain) -- 3. Tracing the physical consequences of famine and malnutrition through the generations / Javier Puche Gil (University of Zaragoza, Spain) -- 4. Ethnography and ideologies of scarcity: famine in post-war extremadura / David Conde Caballero, Lorenzo Mariano Juárez and Julián López García (all University of Extremadura, Spain) -- 5. Poor mothers and children succumb to malnutrition and famine during and after the Spanish Civil War / Peter Anderson (University of Leeds, UK) -- 6. Crime and surviving famine and malnutrition / Gloria Román Ruiz (University of Granada, Spain) -- 7. Starving Spain: international humanitarian responses to hunger under the Franco Regime / David Brydan (King's College London, UK) -- 8. Food discourse, Autarky and Franco's Spain (1939-1959) / Lara Bernadette Anderson (University of Melbourne, Australia) -- 9. A recipe for rationing women, cooking, malnutrition and famine, 1939-1952 / Suzanne Dunai (University of California, San Diego, USA) -- 10. Remembering malnutrition and famine in Spain / Claudio Hernández Burgos and Gloria Román Ruiz (both University of Granada, Spain).

Subject Term:

Malnutrition -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.

Diseases -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.

Starvation -- Spain -- History -- 20th century.

Geographic Term:

Spain -- History -- 20th century.

Added Author:

Blanco, Miguel ℓngel del Arco,

Anderson, Peter,

Format:

Electronic Resources

Electronic Access:

Abstract with links to full text

Publication Date:

2021

Publication Information:

London [England] :

Bloomsbury Academic,

2021.

[London, England] :

Bloomsbury Publishing,

2021

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Summary

At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of the famine, the physical and social consequences, the ways Spaniards tried to survive, the regime's reluctance to accept international relief, the politics of cooking at a time of famine, and the memory of the famine. The volume challenges the silence and misrepresentation that still surround the famine. It reveals the reality of how people perished in Spain because the Francoist authorities instituted a policy of food self-sufficiency (or autarky ): a system of price regulation which placed restrictions on transport as well as food sales. The contributors trace the massive decline in food production which followed, the hoarding which took place on an enormous scale and the vast and deeply iniquitous black market that subsequently flourished at a time when salaries plunged to 50% below their levels in 1936: all contributing factors in the large-scale atrocity explored fully here for the first time.

Author Notes

Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco is Associate Professor in the Department of Contemporary History at the University of Granada, Spain. He is the co-editor, along with Peter Anderson, of Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952: Grappling with the Past (2014). Peter Anderson is Associate Professor in Twentieth-Century European History at the University of Leeds, UK. He is the author of Friend or Foe? Occupation, Collaboration and Selective Violence in the Spanish Civil War (2016) and The Francoist Military Trials: Terror and Complicity, 1939-1945 (2009). He is also the co-editor, along with Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco, of Mass Killings and Violence in Spain, 1936-1952: Grappling with the Past as well as being co-editor of the journal, European History Quarterly .