Franco's famine
Subtitle: malnutrition, disease and starvation in post-civil war Spain
By: edited by Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco and Peter Anderson
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Published: 2022
Place of publication: London; New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 261
ISBN-13: 9781350174641; 9781350174658; 9781350174665
Copyright date: 2022
Subjects: Famines; History; Food supply; Nutrition policy; Economic conditions; Economic policy; Social conditions; Economic history
Description: "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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Famine, not hunger? / Miguel Angel del Arco Blanco and Peter Anderson; title: Part 1: Famine and malnutrition in Spain: Political and socio-economic conditions; title: The famine that ‘never’ existed: Causes of the Spanish famine / Miguel Angel del Arco Blanco; title: Agricultural crisis and food crisis in early Francoism: Hunger seen through the lens of biophysics / Manuel Gonzalez de Molina, David Soto Fernandez, Juan Infante Amate and Antonio Herrera; title: Tracing the physical consequences of famine and malnutrition in Franco’s Spain / Jose Miguel Martinez-Carrion and Javier Puche Gil; title: Part II: Famine, Poverty and daily life; title: Iniquitous famine: Marginalized mothers and children / Peter Anderson; title: When there was nothing. An ethnography of the years of hunger in post-war Extremadura: Memory and representation of scarcity / David Conde Caballero, Lorenzo Mariano Juarez and Julian Lopez Garcia; title: ‘Picaros De Posguerra’. Turning to crime to survive famine and malnutrition in early Francoism (1939-52) / Gloria Roman Ruiz; title: Part III: International responses; title: ‘Starving Spain’: International humanitarian responses to Franco’s famine / David Brydan; title: Part IV: The politics of cooking; title: The production of autarkic subjectivities: Food discourse in Franco’s Spain (1939-59) / Lara Anderson; title: A recipe for rationing: Women, cooking and scarcity during the early Franco dictatorship, 1939-47 / Suzanne Dunai; title: Part V: Memories of malnutrition and famine; title: Remembering the Spanish famine: Official discourse and the popular memory of hunger during Francoism / Claudio Hernandez Burgos and Gloria Roman Ruiz.