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Author : Cornelius Walford
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Total Pages : 314 pages
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Download or read book The Famines of the World: Past and Present ... written by Cornelius Walford and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Walford
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Total Pages : 292 pages
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Download or read book The Famines of the World written by Cornelius Walford and published by . This book was released on 1878 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1509524703
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (95 download)
Download or read book Mass Starvation written by Alex de Waal and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2017-12-08 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.
Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780691122373
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (223 download)
Download or read book Famine written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: History.
Author : Cornelius 1827-1885 Walford
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ISBN 13 : 9781362143178
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (431 download)
Download or read book FAMINES OF THE WORLD PAST & PR written by Cornelius 1827-1885 Walford and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-26 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Walford
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Download or read book The Famines of the World written by Cornelius Walford and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cornelius Walford
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Total Pages : 348 pages
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Download or read book The famines of the world: past and present. 2 papers read before the Statistical soc. of London, and repr. from its Journal written by Cornelius Walford and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1781683603
Total Pages : 367 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (816 download)
Download or read book Late Victorian Holocausts written by Mike Davis and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-01-01 with total page 367 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.
Author : Cornelius Walford
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781294639992
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (399 download)
Download or read book The Famines of the World, Past and Present - Primary Source Edition written by Cornelius Walford and published by . This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Guido Alfani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107179939
Total Pages : 339 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book Famine in European History written by Guido Alfani and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2017-08-31 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.
Author : Cornelius Walford
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780666615275
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (152 download)
Download or read book The Famines of the World written by Cornelius Walford and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-28 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Famines of the World: Past and Present (Being Two Papers Read Before the Statistical Society of London in 1878 and 1879 Respectively, and Reprinted From Its Journal) The Scriptures speak of several famines which had been in Palestine and In the neighbouring countries, as that in the time of Abraham(. Gen xii, and again in the time of Isaac xxvi. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Frank Dikötter
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 : 080277928X
Total Pages : 449 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)
Download or read book Mao's Great Famine written by Frank Dikötter and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2010-10-01 with total page 449 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691217920
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Black '47 and Beyond written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-01 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.
Author : Cornelius Walford
Publisher : Palala Press
ISBN 13 : 9781357666927
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (669 download)
Download or read book The Famines of the World written by Cornelius Walford and published by Palala Press. This book was released on 2016-05-20 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
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Author : William A. Dando
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 892 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (16 download)
Download or read book Food and Famine in the 21st Century [2 volumes] written by William A. Dando and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2012-02-13 with total page 892 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive two-volume encyclopedia examines specific famines throughout history and contains entries on key topics related to food production, security and policies, and famine, giving readers an in-depth look at food crises and their causes, responses to them, and outcomes. Famines have claimed more lives across human history than all the wars ever fought. This two-volume set represents the most comprehensive study of food and famine currently available, providing the broadest analysis of hunger and famine causes as well as a detailed examination of the ramifications of cultural and natural hazards upon famine. Volume one focuses upon 50 topics and issues relating to the creation of hunger and famines in the world from 4000 BCE to 2100, including an overview of how agriculture has evolved from primitive hunting and gathering that supported limited numbers of people to a worldwide system that now feeds over seven billion people. Volume two, entitled Classic Famines, begins with famines of the past, from 4000 BCE to 2100 CE, includes ten classic famine case studies, and concludes with predictions of famines we could see in the 21st century and beyond.
Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191037435
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Poverty and Famines written by Amartya Sen and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1983-01-20 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main focus of this book is on the causation of starvation in general and of famines in particular. The author develops the alternative method of analysis—the 'entitlement approach'—concentrating on ownership and exchange, not on food supply. The book also provides a general analysis of the characterization and measurement of poverty. Various approaches used in economics, sociology, and political theory are critically examined. The predominance of distributional issues, including distribution between different occupation groups, links up the problem of conceptualizing poverty with that of analyzing starvation.
Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691210314
Total Pages : 246 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)
Download or read book Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future written by Cormac Ó Gráda and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New perspectives on the history of famine—and the possibility of a famine-free world Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. The book begins with a taboo topic. Ó Gráda argues that cannibalism, while by no means a universal feature of famines and never responsible for more than a tiny proportion of famine deaths, has probably been more common during very severe famines than previously thought. The book goes on to offer new interpretations of two of the twentieth century’s most notorious and controversial famines, the Great Bengal Famine and the Chinese Great Leap Forward Famine. Ó Gráda questions the standard view of the Bengal Famine as a perfect example of market failure, arguing instead that the primary cause was the unwillingness of colonial rulers to divert food from their war effort. The book also addresses the role played by traders and speculators during famines more generally, invoking evidence from famines in France, Ireland, Finland, Malawi, Niger, and Somalia since the 1600s, and overturning Adam Smith’s claim that government attempts to solve food shortages always cause famines. Thought-provoking and important, this is essential reading for historians, economists, demographers, and anyone else who is interested in the history and possible future of famine.
