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by Belinda J. Davis

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Challenging assumptions about the separation of high politics and everyday life, Belinda Davis uncovers the important influence of the broad civilian populace -- particularly poorer women -- on German domestic and even military policy during World War I.

As Britain's wartime blockade of goods to Central Europe increasingly squeezed the German food supply, public protests led by "women of little means" broke out in the streets of Berlin and other German cities. These "street scenes" riveted public attention and drew urban populations together across class lines to make formidable, apparently unified demands on the German state. Imperial authorities responded in unprecedented fashion in the interests of beleaguered consumers, interceding actively in food distribution and production. But officials' actions were far more effective in legitimating popular demands than in defending the state's right to rule. In the end, says Davis, this dynamic fundamentally reformulated relations between state and society and contributed to the state's downfall in 1918. Shedding new light on the Wilhelmine government, German subjects' role as political actors, and the influence of the war on the home front on the Weimar state and society, Home Fires Burning helps rewrite the political history of World War I Germany.

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Germany entered the war in 1914 a country in which rapid industrialization and urbanization had helped to produce a polarized society, often discontented and anomic, a nation that inspired both great pride and a gnawing sense of inadequacy among its subjects.

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Challenging assumptions about the separation of politics and everyday life, Davis uncovers the important influence of poorer women on German domestic policy during World War I.

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  • Title Home Fires Burning: Food, Politics, and Everyday Life in World War I Berlin
  • Author Belinda J. Davis
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: Repri
  • Pages 368
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, U.S.A.
  • Publication date 2000-04-24
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Maps
  • ISBN 9780807848371 / 0807848379
  • Weight 1.18 lbs (0.54 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.26 x 6.14 x 0.95 in (23.52 x 15.60 x 2.41 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1949
    • Chronological Period: 1900-1919
    • Cultural Region: Central Europe
    • Cultural Region: Germany
    • Sex & Gender: Feminine
  • Category History - Military / War
  • Library of Congress subjects Berlin (Germany) - History - 1918-1945, World War, 1914-1918 - Women - Germany
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 99032578
  • Dewey Decimal Code 943.155

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  • Choice, 10/01/2000, Page 399

About the author

Belinda J. Davis is associate professor of history at Rutgers University.
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