Famine : a short history
by Gráda, Cormac Ó
Published by : Princeton University Press (Princeton, N.J) Physical details: xiii, 327 p ISBN:978-0-691-12237-3.
Subject(s):
Starvation
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Famines in History : Crime, slavery, prostitution, infanticide, child abonnement, cannibalism
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Food supply in History
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Prevention and coping, famine foods, country misers and calculating merchants, migration
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Famine demography : Hierarchies of suffering, death, gender and age, long term impact
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Markets and famines : Profiteers, French economists and Adam smith, markets and famines in practice, transport
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Entitlement - Bengal and beyond : Food supply and market failure
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Public and private action : Feeding the starving, means of relief, corruption, NGOs and globalization of relief, famine relief as state aid
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Violence of government : USSR, Chinese famine of 1959-61, Ethiopia and north Korea
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End to famine : Agricultural trends, climate and desertification, where backwardness persists
Year: 2009
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