9780807848371-0807848379-Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin

ISBN-13: 9780807848371
ISBN-10: 0807848379
Edition: New edition
Author: Belinda J. Davis
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780807848371
ISBN-10: 0807848379
Edition: New edition
Author: Belinda J. Davis
Publication date: 2000
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Format: Paperback 368 pages

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Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (ISBN-13: 9780807848371 and ISBN-10: 0807848379), written by authors Belinda J. Davis, was published by The University of North Carolina Press in 2000. With an overall rating of 4.0 stars, it's a notable title among other Civil War (United States History, Americas History) books. You can easily purchase or rent Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Civil War books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.6.

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Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis 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 officials' actions were far more effective in legitimating popular demands than in defending the state's right to rule. In the end, says Davis, this dynamic fundamentally reformulated relations between state and society and contributed to the state's downfall in 1918. Shedding new light on the Wilhelmine government, German subjects' role as political actors, and the influence of the war on the home front on the Weimar state and society, Home Fires Burning helps rewrite the political history of World War I Germany.

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