The “food weapon”: The foundations for the history of a concept (seventeenth–nineteenth centuries)

Abstract Access to food is humankind’s most basic need, and the “food weapon” refers to all the means employed to voluntarily starve a population. When a country has an export monopoly on an essential agricultural commodity or a dominant position on the market of such a foodstuff, it can use its management and storage resources … Continue reading The “food weapon”: The foundations for the history of a concept (seventeenth–nineteenth centuries)