Poverty and Famines

• Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
• Publisher : Princeton University Press
• Release : 05 August 2021

History.

• Author : Amartya Sen
• Publisher : OUP Oxford
• Release : 20 January 1983

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.

• Author : Ciarán Ó Murchadha
• Publisher : A&C Black
• Release : 04 August 2011

An engaging and moving account of this most destructive event in Irish history.

• Author : Olivier Rubin
• Publisher : Springer
• Release : 11 December 2015

This Brief provides some answers as to why famines continue to torment humankind here in the 21st century despite all our progress in food production, logistics, information dissemination and relief work. Contemporary famines are inherently political, and so the interesting question is not how famines can be prevented, but why they are allowed to develop in the first place; only by understanding the latter, is there hope to eradicate major famines. The Brief assesses the various analytical approaches to the

• Author : Anne Applebaum
• Publisher : Penguin UK
• Release : 07 September 2017

SUNDAY TIMES, THE TIMES, FT AND EVENING STANDARD BOOKS OF THE YEAR 2017 The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth century. With unprecedented authority and detail, Red Famine investigates how this happened, who was responsible, and what the consequences were. It is the fullest account

• Author : Cormac Ó'Gráda,Economic History Society
• Publisher : Cambridge University Press
• Release : 28 September 1995

A concise analysis of one of the great disasters of Irish history.

• Author : Professor of Population and Development Tim Dyson, M.,Tim Dyson,Cormac O Grada,Cormac Ó Gráda,Cormac S. Grada
• Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
• Release : 05 August 2021

This book deals with the important subject of famine demography. Drawing together case studies of famines in the historical past and more recent times it tries to answer questions such as: To what extent did famines control human population growth in the past? Who dies most in famines? What are the principal causes of famine mortality? When do people die in famines? And what factors influence the volume of famine mortality? The implications of famines for humanfertility and migration are

• Author : Olivier Rubin
• Publisher : Routledge
• Release : 06 December 2012

Famine is the most extreme manifestation of the existence of poverty, inequality and political apathy. Whereas poverty, hunger and diseases are not easily eradicated in the world today, famines are often perceived to be relatively simple to avert. However, the political incentives to prevent famines are not always present. Inspired by the work of Amartya Sen, whose influential hypothesis that democratic institutions together with a free press provide effective protection from famine, Democracy and Famine is a study combining qualitative

• Author : John Crowley,William J. Smyth
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 August 2021

The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implications that cannot be underestimated. Over a million people perished between 1845-1852, and well over a million others fled to other locales within Europe and America. By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter of the population in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The 2000 US census had 41 million people claim Irish ancestry, or one in five white Americans. This book considers how such a near

• Author : Alex de Waal
• Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
• Release : 08 December 2017

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground

• Author : James S. Donnelly
• Publisher : Sutton Pub Limited
• Release : 05 August 2021

This book provides a moving insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed.

• Author : Jasper Becker
• Publisher : Unknown
• Release : 05 August 1996

An account of China's four-year famine uncovers the truth behind one of the darkest chapters in history.

• Author : Jean Ziegler
• Publisher : New Press, The
• Release : 06 August 2013

Few know that world hunger was very nearly eradicated in our lifetimes. In the past five years, however, widespread starvation has suddenly reappeared, and chronic hunger is a major issue on every continent. In an extensive investigation of this disturbing shift, Jean Ziegler—one of the world’s leading food experts—lays out in clear and accessible terms the complex global causes of the new hunger crisis. Ziegler’s wide-ranging and fascinating examination focuses on how the new sustainable revolution

• Author : Charlie Richards
• Publisher : eXtasy Books
• Release : 04 June 2021

Enforcer Knossis Raund doesn’t know why Fate has forsaken him. He meets his mate, only to discover she’s a happily married woman in a great marriage with several kids. Refusing to bring heartbreak to the family, Knossis seeks out the one thing he can think of that will allow him to still have a sex life—a vampire’s bite. As a vampire wrangler, Chissom Minscote is confident in his abilities. He knows Knossis expects to be bitten

• Author : Yang Jisheng
• Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Release : 30 October 2012

The much-anticipated definitive account of China's Great Famine An estimated thirty-six million Chinese men, women, and children starved to death during China's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early '60s. One of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century, the famine is poorly understood, and in China is still euphemistically referred to as "the three years of natural disaster." As a journalist with privileged access to official and unofficial sources, Yang Jisheng spent twenty years piecing together