Famine : a short history / Cormac Ó Gráda.
"Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia ... He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and th...
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
[2009]
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Table of Contents:
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- I. The third horseman
- The ultimate check
- Time and place
- How common were famines in the past?
- Remembering famine
- II. The horrors of famine
- Crime
- Slavery
- Prostitution, infanticide, and child abandonment
- Cannibalism
- III. Prevention and coping
- Famine foods
- Country misers and calculating merchants
- Migration
- IV. Famine demography
- Hierarchies of suffering
- How many died?
- Gender and age
- Missing births
- What do people die of during famines?
- Long-term impacts
- V. Markets and famines
- Profiteers
- French Économistes and Adam Smith
- Markets and famines in practice
- Transport
- Conclusion
- VI. Entitlements : Bengal and beyond
- Bengal
- Food supply and market failure
- Winners and losers
- Conclusion
- VII. Public and private action
- Feeding the starving
- Means of relief
- Corruption
- NGOs and the globalization of relief
- Famine relief as state aid
- VIII. The "violence of government"
- War by another means
- The USSR
- The Chinese famine of 1959-61
- Ethiopia and North Korea
- IX. An end to famine?
- Agricultural trends
- Climate and desertification
- Where backwardness persists
- A stitch in time
- References
- Index.