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Famine : A Short History /
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford :
Princeton University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Ch. I. Third Horseman
- Ultimate Check
- Time and Place
- How Common Were Famines in the Past?
- Remembering Famine
- Ch. II. Horrors of Famine
- Crime
- Slavery
- Prostitution, Infanticide, and Child Abandonment
- Cannibalism
- Ch. III. Prevention and Coping
- Famine Foods
- Country Misers and Calculating Merchants
- Migration
- Ch. IV. Famine Demography
- Hierarchies of Suffering
- How Many Died?
- Gender and Age
- Missing Births
- What Do People Die of during Famines?
- Long-term Impacts
- Ch. V. Markets and Famines
- Profiteers
- French Economistes and Adam Smith
- Markets and Famines in Practice
- Transport
- Ch. VI. Entitlements: Bengal and Beyond
- Bengal
- Food Supply and Market Failure
- Winners and Losers
- Ch. VII. Public and Private Action
- Feeding the Starving
- Means of Relief
- Corruption
- NGOs and the Globalization of Relief
- Famine Relief as State Aid
- Ch. VIII. "Violence of Government"
- War by Another Means
- USSR
- Chinese Famine of 1959-61
- Ethiopia and North Korea
- Ch. IX. End to Famine?
- Agricultural Trends
- Climate and Desertification
- Where Backwardness Persists
- Stitch in Time.