The Famines of the World: Past and Present ...
Author | : Cornelius Walford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Famines |
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Author | : Cornelius Walford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 1879 |
Genre | : Famines |
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Author | : Cornelius Walford |
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Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1878 |
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Author | : Cormac Ó Gráda |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 352 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780691122373 |
History.
Author | : Alex de Waal |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 264 |
Release | : 2017-12-08 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1509524703 |
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 | : Cornelius 1827-1885 Walford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-08-26 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781362143178 |
Author | : Cornelius Walford |
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Release | : 1879 |
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Author | : Cormac Ó Gráda |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 314 |
Release | : 2020-09-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0691217920 |
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 | : Guido Alfani |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 339 |
Release | : 2017-08-31 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107179939 |
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 | : Mike Davis |
Publisher | : Verso Books |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1781683603 |
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 | : |
Total Pages | : 310 |
Release | : 2014-02 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781294639992 |