From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the ast...Loe edasi...
This is the first English translation of Deng Yuntes classic study of famine relief in Chinese history. Richly researched, Deng both plots the history of famine from ancient times to the Republican period and provides a fascinating example of histo...Loe edasi...
The Armenian world was shattered by the 1915 genocide. Not only were thousands of lives lost but families were displaced and the narrative threads that connected them to their own past and homelands were forever severed. Many have been left with o...Loe edasi...
MacMahon focuses on human stories rather than statistics as he depicts the unprecedented events, upheavals and challenges of the famine years through the eyes of those who were there and reveals information which has lain hidden and untapped for 170...Loe edasi...
Journeying across Ghana’s savannahs and cities, John Nott investigates how nutrition and capitalism have intersected to define health from colonial rule to the present.Between Feast and Famine unravels the intertwined histories...Loe edasi...
Journeying across Ghana’s savannahs and cities, John Nott investigates how nutrition and capitalism have intersected to define health from colonial rule to the present.Between Feast and Famine unravels the intertwined histories...Loe edasi...
From the award-winning author of Five Points and City of Dreams, a breathtaking new history of the Irish immigrants who arrived in the United States during the Great Potato Famine, showing how their strivings in and beyond New York exemplify the ast...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...
Sari: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2023, Hardback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820363738)
This book examines three consecutive famines in Cambodia during the 1970s; it explores both the continuities and discontinuities. Cambodia experienced three consecutive famines set against the backdrop of four distinct governments: Kingdom of Cambod...Loe edasi...
Sari: Geographies of Justice and Social Transformation
(Ilmumisaeg: 15-Apr-2023, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Georgia Press, ISBN-13: 9780820363721)
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...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...
Takes a fresh look at the history of famine relief and humanitarianism through a novel moral economy approach, drawing on case studies of the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921–3, and the famine in Ethiopia in the mi...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Sep-2022, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University College Dublin Press, ISBN-13: 9781910820773)
An illumination of how nineteenth-century Dublin experienced and endured the Great Irish Famine. Dublin did not escape Ireland’s mid-nineteenth-century Great Famine: many of its inhabitants experienced acute poverty and illness, and...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 02-Sep-2021, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: John Donald, ISBN-13: 9781910900505)
The Great Hunger in nineteenth-century Ireland was a major human tragedy of modern times. Acute famine also gripped the Scottish Highlands at the same time, causing misery, hardship and distress. The story of that lesser known human disaster is told...Loe edasi...
Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist...Loe edasi...
The tragedy that struck Ireland between 1845 and 1852 is often viewed through the lens of cold-hearted bureaucrats, greedy merchants or indifferent landlords who put profit, principles of political economy, and prejudice against the Irish poor, above...Loe edasi...
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: 23-Jul-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108479905)
Deng Yunte (1912-66), also known as Deng Tuo, was a respected academic and artist. He was also a propagandist and political commentator, before becoming one of the earliest victims of the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide in 1966. This is th...Loe edasi...
