“… essential reading for anyone interested in the “Greater War” experience, post-imperial transitions, and modern European history more generally.”
Robert Gerwarth, Professor of Modern History, University College Dublin, and the author of The Vanquished: Why the First World War Failed to End, 1917-1923
“This exciting new book examines the ways that food distribution, food policy, and food aid were used in efforts to shore up feelings of good will and to support political agendas in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia.”
Mary Elisabeth Cox, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Central European University, and the author of Hunger in War and Peace: Women and Children in Germany, 1914-1924
“... a lively and insightful contribution to postimperial histories of Central Europe.”
Maureen Healy, Lewis & Clark College, author of Vienna and the Fall of the Habsburg Empire: Total War and Everyday Life in World War I, co-editor Austrian History Yearbook
“Employing a wealth of new archival research, the contributors to this interesting and useful collection offer a fresh look at post-First World War food shortages by examining the state of nutrition in some of Habsburg Central Europe’s “victor” states.”
Nancy M. Wingfield, recipient of the 2024 Franti.ek Palack. Honorary Medal
for Merit in the Historical Sciences, awarded by the Czech Academy of Sciences
“… a significant contribution to the growing historiography of hunger in East Central and Southeastern Europe, framing it as a quintessential “post-imperial story” and thus adding an important piece to this “post-imperial puzzle”.”
Friederike Kind-Kovács, research fellow at the Hannah-Arendt-Institute, Dresden, and the author of Budapest's Children: Humanitarian Relief in the Aftermath of the Great War
