ISBN:
9780691147970
,
9780691122373
,
0691122377
Language:
English
Pages:
XIII, 327 S.
,
Ill., graph. Darst.
,
23 cm
Parallel Title:
Online-Ausg. Ó Gráda, Cormac, 1945 - Famine
DDC:
363.809
Keywords:
Famines History
;
Food supply History
;
Famines History
;
Food supply History
;
Famines
;
History
;
Food supply
;
History
;
Hungersnot
;
Geschichte
;
Hunger
;
Hungersnot
;
Geschichte
Abstract:
"(c) Gr(c)Łda 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. (c) Gr(c)Łda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places"--Publisher description
Abstract:
"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"--Publisher description
Description / Table of Contents:
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.
Note:
Originally published: 2009. - Includes bibliographical references and index
