Eating people is wrong, and other essays on famine, its past, and its future / Cormac Ó Gráda.
Eating people is wrong, and other essays on famine, its past, and its future / Cormac Ó Gráda.
Eating people is wrong, and other essays on famine, its past, and its future / Cormac Ó Gráda.
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Author / Creator
Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Call Numbers
G 2016/1996
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MMS ID
Language
English
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Physical Description
Physical content
235 pages : illustrations (black and white), maps (black and white) ; 23 cm.
Content type
text
cartographic image
still image
text
Media type
unmediated
Carrier type
volume
Contents
Eating people is wrong: famine's darkest secret? -- Revisiting the Great Bengal famine of 1943-44 -- Markets and famines: pre-industrial Europe and beyond -- Great leap, great famine -- Famine is not the problem--for now.
Publication information
Publisher
Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Place of Publication
New Jersey
Date Published
[2015]
Subjects
Subject Keywords
- Famine
- Food supply
- Social conditions
- International comparisons
- History
- Overseas item
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Scope and Contents
Summary
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 pe...
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Full title
Eating people is wrong, and other essays on famine, its past, and its future / Cormac Ó Gráda.
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Author / Creator
Notes
General note
SOC.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Call Numbers
G 2016/1996
Record Identifier
74VKzbZwz2EZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKzbZwz2EZ
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ISBN
9780691165356 (hardback : alk. paper)
DDC
363.809
MMS ID
991023562189702626
