Famine :
a short history /
Cormac Ó Gráda.
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| Summary: | "Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia ... He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes or failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places"--From publisher description. |
| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
c2009.
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| Notes: | Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 10A Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-317) and index. Physical description: xiii, 327 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 9780691122373 (acid-free paper) 0691122377 (acid-free paper) |
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Famine : |b a short history / |c Cormac Ó Gráda. |
| 260 | |a Princeton, N.J. : |b Princeton University Press, |c c2009. | ||
| 300 | |a xiii, 327 p. : |b ill. ; |c 23 cm. | ||
| 500 | |a Dust jacket available. See entry for [Miscellaneous dust jackets removed from 10A Collection items] in the NLI catalogue. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [283]-317) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a List of figures and tables -- Acknowledgments -- I. The third horseman -- The ultimate check -- Time and place -- How common were famines in the past? -- Remembering famine -- II. The horrors of famine -- Crime -- Slavery -- Prostitution, infanticide, and child abandonment -- Cannibalism -- III. Prevention and coping -- Famine foods -- Country misers and calculating merchants -- Migration -- IV. Famine demography -- Hierarchies of suffering -- How many died? -- Gender and age -- Missing births -- What do people die of during famines? -- Long-term impacts -- V. Markets and famines -- Profiteers -- French Économistes and Adam Smith -- Markets and famines in practice -- Transport -- Conclusion -- VI. Entitlements : Bengal and beyond -- Bengal -- Food supply and market failure -- Winners and losers -- Conclusion -- VII. Public and private action -- Feeding the starving -- Means of relief -- Corruption -- NGOs and the globalization of relief -- Famine relief as state aid -- VIII. The "violence of government" -- War by another means -- The USSR -- The Chinese famine of 1959-61 -- Ethiopia and North Korea -- IX. An end to famine? -- Agricultural trends -- Climate and desertification -- Where backwardness persists -- A stitch in time -- References -- Index. | |
| 520 | |a "Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia ... He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes or failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places"--From publisher description. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Famines |x History. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Food supply |x History. | |
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