Violetta Hionidou

Famine and Death in Occupied Greece, 1941-1944

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A pioneering study of the impact of the famine that occurred in Greece during its occupation by German, Italian and Bulgarian forces in 1941 and 1942. Violetta Hionidou examines the courses and politics of this food crisis, focusing on the demography of the famine and the effectiveness of the relief operations. Her interdisciplinary approach combines demographic, historical and anthropological methodologies to offer a comprehensive account of the famine. This important study makes a major contribution to current debates about mortality and its causes during famines.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 565g
• ISBN-13: 9780521829328
• ISBN-10: 0521829321
• Artikelnr.: 22172683

Autorenporträt

Violetta Hionidou has taught at Southampton, Crete and the Ionian Universities. She has published widely on the demograpic and social history of Modern Greece.

Inhaltsangabe

List of illustrations
List of figures
List of tables
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
Prologue
1. Contexts
2. The chronology and geography of the food crisis, 1941-4
3. Central government and administration
4. Requisitioning of foodstuffs
5. Agricultural production
6. Economy and markets in occupied Greece
7. Welfare and relief
8. Population movement during the occupation
9. Short-term effects on mortality and fertility
10. Causes of famine mortality
11. Death and survival by occupation
Epilogue.