• KILA Library - Catalogue

  • KILA Library - Catalogue

  • KILA Library - Catalogue

Gráda, Cormac Ó

Famine : a short history - Princeton, N.J Princeton University Press 2009 - xiii, 327 p

978-0-691-12237-3


Starvation
Famines in History : Crime, slavery, prostitution, infanticide, child abonnement, cannibalism
Food supply in History
Prevention and coping, famine foods, country misers and calculating merchants, migration
Famine demography : Hierarchies of suffering, death, gender and age, long term impact
Markets and famines : Profiteers, French economists and Adam smith, markets and famines in practice, transport
Entitlement - Bengal and beyond : Food supply and market failure
Public and private action : Feeding the starving, means of relief, corruption, NGOs and globalization of relief, famine relief as state aid
Violence of government : USSR, Chinese famine of 1959-61, Ethiopia and north Korea
End to famine : Agricultural trends, climate and desertification, where backwardness persists

363.809 / GRA/F
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