Ghanas twentieth century was one of dramatic political, economic, and environmental change. Sparked initially by the impositions of colonial rule, these transformations had significant, if rarely uniform, repercussions for the determinants of good a...Loe edasi...
Uncover the gripping narrative of Irish immigrants who transformed America in the aftermath of the Great Hunger. Tyler Anbinders landmark work exposes the grit and resilience of the Famine Irish, defying hardship to redefine the American dream. From...Loe edasi...
Sari: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2023, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820363752)
This book examines three consecutive famines in Cambodia during the 1970s, exploring both continuities and discontinuities of all three. Cambodia experienced these consecutive famines against the backdrop of four distinct governments: the Kingdom of...Loe edasi...
Sari: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2023, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820363745)
This book examines three consecutive famines in Cambodia during the 1970s, exploring both continuities and discontinuities of all three. Cambodia experienced these consecutive famines against the backdrop of four distinct governments: the Kingdom of...Loe edasi...
The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan. Various documents from the archives reveal to the reader the most difficult period of the Soviet history of Kazakhstan, asso...Loe edasi...
The collection contains materials of archival documents and memoirs concerning the famine of 1931-1933 in Central Kazakhstan. Various documents from the archives reveal to the reader the most difficult period of the Soviet history of Kazakhstan, asso...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Sep-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Birlinn General, ISBN-13: 9781788854108)
The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Almost a million perished and a further two million emigrated in the wake of potato blight and economic collapse. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlan...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 08-Jun-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9781400829897)
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 politi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jan-2021, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000324334)
Development schemes are common throughout the third world. Many fail, but the reasons for failure or success are only too often not adequately studied. In this monograph two schemes started in Basutoland - now Lesotho - are intensively analysed and c...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Jan-2021, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000320916)
Development schemes are common throughout the third world. Many fail, but the reasons for failure or success are only too often not adequately studied. In this monograph two schemes started in Basutoland - now Lesotho - are intensively analysed and c...Loe edasi...
Sari: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691217925)
Here Irelands premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, th...Loe edasi...
Sari: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Sep-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Princeton University Press, ISBN-13: 9780691217925)
Here Irelands premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, th...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Jun-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: Taylor & Francis Ltd, ISBN-13: 9781000173345)
This collection contains Five volumes of reprints of contemporary works relating to the Great Famine, including writings on the medical conditions in Ireland at the time gathered from the "e;Dublin Journal of Medical Science"e; and similar pu...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2020, PDF+DRM, Kirjastus: West Virginia University Press, ISBN-13: 9781949199352)
Mass starvations causes may seem simple and immediate: crop failure, poverty, outbreaks of violence, and poor governance. But famines are complex, and scholars cannot fully understand what causes them unless they look at their numerous social and en...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 01-Apr-2020, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: West Virginia University Press, ISBN-13: 9781949199352)
Mass starvations causes may seem simple and immediate: crop failure, poverty, outbreaks of violence, and poor governance. But famines are complex, and scholars cannot fully understand what causes them unless they look at their numerous social and en...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2019, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: Pan Macmillan, ISBN-13: 9781509882885)
The gripping human story of how American volunteers fought famine in Bolshevik Russia, saving Lenins revolutionary government from chaos and millions of people from starvation.Brilliant, disturbing . . . an important story that needed to be told....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Sep-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9780889775084)
From 1932 to 1933, a catastrophic famine, known as the Holodomor ("e;extermination by hunger"e;), raged through Ukraine, killing millions of people. Although the Soviet government denied it, news about the tragedy got out and Canadians came t...Loe edasi...
Sari: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Mar-2018, EPUB+DRM, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813063447)
With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health calamities in history. Because historical records of the Victorian period in Ireland were generally written by the middle and upper class...Loe edasi...
