ISBN:
9780804753043
,
9780804771818
Language:
English
Pages:
XIX, 520 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst., Kt.
,
27 cm
DDC:
363.80951/1
Keywords:
Famines History
;
Disaster relief History
;
Famines History
;
China
;
Disaster relief History
;
China
;
China Economic conditions
;
Hebei Sheng (China) Economic conditions
;
China Economic conditions
;
History
;
Hebei Sheng (China) Economic conditions
;
History
;
China Nord
;
Hebei
;
Armut
;
Bekämpfung
;
Ernährungskrise
;
Hungersnot
;
Geschichte 1690-1990
Abstract:
"Heaven, earth, and man" in North China -- Managing the rivers : emperors as engineers -- Population, agriculture, and food -- Food and prices -- Provisioning Beijing -- Storing grain : granaries as solution and problem -- Markets and prices -- Famine relief : the High Qing model -- Famine relief : nineteenth-century devolution -- The "land of famine", 1900-1949 -- Rural crisis and economic change, 1900-1949 -- Food and famine under socialist rule, 1949-1990s
Description / Table of Contents:
"Heaven, earth, and man" in North China -- Managing the rivers : emperors as engineers -- Population, agriculture, and food -- Food and prices -- Provisioning Beijing -- Storing grain : granaries as solution and problem -- Markets and prices -- Famine relief : the High Qing model -- Famine relief : nineteenth-century -- The "land of famine", 1900-1949 -- Rural crisis and economic change, 1900-1949 -- Food and famine under socialist rule, 1949-1990s
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 483-506) and index
URL:
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=25575
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