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Ó Gráda

Famine

A Short History

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-0-691-14797-0
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Erscheinungstermin: 29.08.2010
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Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation--whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies--devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed author who chronicled the tragic Irish famine in books like Black '47 and Beyond, here traces the complete history of famine from the earliest records to today. Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from the Great Famine of fourteenth-century Europe to the famine in Niger in 2005. He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine, including the roles that population pressure, public policy, and human agency play in causing famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes and failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places as different as Ukraine under Stalin, 1940s Bengal, and Mao's China. And he examines the prospects of a world free of famine. This is the most comprehensive history of famine available, and is required reading for anyone concerned with issues of economic development and world poverty.

Produkteigenschaften

  • Artikelnummer: 9780691147970
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-0-691-14797-0
  • Verlag: Princeton University Press
  • Erscheinungstermin: 29.08.2010
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: Erscheinungsjahr 2010
  • Produktform: Kartoniert, Paperback
  • Gewicht: 489 g
  • Seiten: 344
  • Format (B x H x T): 140 x 216 x 20 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt

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Cormac ÓGráda is professor of economics at University College Dublin. His books include "Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce" (Princeton), "Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory" (Princeton), and "Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939".

List of Figures and Tables xi

Acknowledgments xv

Chapter I: The Third Horseman 1

The Ultimate Check 8

Time and Place 13

How Common Were Famines in the Past? 25

Remembering Famine 39

Chapter II: The Horrors of Famine 45

Crime 52

Slavery 56

Prostitution, Infanticide, and Child Abandonment 59

Cannibalism 63

Chapter III: Prevention and Coping 69

Famine Foods 73

Country Misers and Calculating Merchants 78

Migration 81

Chapter IV: Famine Demography 90

Hierarchies of Suffering 90

How Many Died? 92

Gender and Age 98

Missing Births 102

What Do People Die of during Famines? 108

Long-term Impacts 121

Chapter V: Markets and Famines 129

Profiteers 129

French ?conomistes and Adam Smith 137

Markets and Famines in Practice 143

Transport 155

Conclusion 157

Chapter VI: Entitlements: Bengal and Beyond 159

Bengal 159

Food Supply and Market Failure 166

Winners and Losers 178

Conclusion 184

Chapter VII: Public and Private Action 195

Feeding the Starving 195

Means of Relief 210

Corruption 216

NGOs and the Globalization of Relief 218

Famine Relief as State Aid 225

Chapter VIII: The "Violence of Government" 229

War by Another Means 229

The USSR 233

The Chinese Famine of 1959-61 241

Ethiopia and North Korea 254

Chapter IX: An End to Famine? 259

Agricultural Trends 262

Climate and Desertification 269

Where Backwardness Persists 274

A Stitch in Time 278

References 283

Index 319