Franco's Famine: Malnutrition, Disease and Starvation in Post-Civil War Spain by Peter Anderson, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco

Franco's Famine: Malnutrition, Disease and Starvation in Post-Civil War Spain

Peter Anderson, Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco

280 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

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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...

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