1st Edition
Nourishing Victory Food Shortages and Post-Imperial Transition in the Bohemian Lands and Slovenia
List of Maps, Figures and Table
List of Abbreviations
Note on Place Names
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Food Shortages and Shifting Loyalties - Václav Šmidrkal and Rok Stergar
1: Breaking the State: Food, Hunger, and Power in War - Maja Godina Golija and Václav Šmidrkal
2: Building the State: Hunger, Anger, and Postwar Consolidation - Václav Šmidrkal and Maja Godina Golija
3: Hopes, Promises, Realities: Food Scarcity and Foreign Aid - Dagmar Hájková and Rok Stergar
4: Nourishing Contested Borderlands - Pavel Horák and Jernej Kosi
Epilogue - Václav Šmidrkal, Rok Stergar, Maja Godina Golija, Dagmar Hájková, Pavel Horák, and Jernej Kosi
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Václav Šmidrkal is a researcher at the Masaryk Institute and Archives of the Czech Academy of Sciences and an assistant professor at Charles University in Prague. His research focuses on post-war transitions, war veterans, and military propaganda in twentieth-century Central Europe.
Rok Stergar is Professor in Modern History at the University of Ljubljana and a historian of the Habsburg Empire, the First World War, and of nationalism. He is the author of two books and numerous articles on nationalisms in the Habsburg Empire, the First World War, and post-imperial transitions.
