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Eating people is wrong, and other essays on famine, its past, and its future /

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 i...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Ó Gráda, Cormac (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
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