The Famines of the World: Past and Present ...
Author : Cornelius Walford
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Page : 314 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Famines
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Author : Cornelius Walford
Publisher :
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 26,12 MB
Release : 1879
Category : Famines
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Author : Cornelius Walford
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Page : 292 pages
File Size : 18,35 MB
Release : 1878
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Author : Alex de Waal
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 30,26 MB
Release : 2017-12-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1509524703
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 in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.
Author : Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 35,83 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780691122373
History.
Author : Cornelius 1827-1885 Walford
Publisher :
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 19,7 MB
Release : 2016-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781362143178
Author : Cornelius Walford
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 31,35 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : Guido Alfani
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 339 pages
File Size : 13,22 MB
Release : 2017-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1107179939
The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies by leading experts to form a comprehensive picture of when and why food security across the continent became a critical issue.
Author : Cornelius Walford
Publisher :
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 49,80 MB
Release : 2014-02
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ISBN : 9781294639992
Author : Cornelius Walford
Publisher :
Page : 348 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 1879
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Author : Mike Davis
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 367 pages
File Size : 12,34 MB
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1781683603
Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.