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.
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