Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Ó Gráda, Cormac (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2015]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hungersnöd > historia.
Famines.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Economic History.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
Famines > Histoire.
Cannibalism > history
Starvation > history
Food Supply > history
Famines > History.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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