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...
(Ilmumisaeg: 23-Jul-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781108493529)
The book takes a fresh look at humanitarian action through the concept of moral economy. It suggests a revised periodisation of humanitarianism by analogy to politico-economic regimes, rather than geopolitical sequencing: moving from ad hoc humanita...Loe edasi...
The Great Hunger of 1845 to 1852 cast a long shadow over the subsequent history of Ireland and its diaspora. Since 1995, there has been a renewed interest in studying this event, not only by history scholars and students, but byarcheologists, artists...Loe edasi...
Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharps illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famin...Loe edasi...
Douglas Smiths The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 30-Apr-2020, Hardback, Kirjastus: West Virginia University Press, ISBN-13: 9781949199338)
Mass starvation&;s 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 a...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Feb-2020, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: West Virginia University Press, ISBN-13: 9781949199345)
Mass starvation&;s 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 a...Loe edasi...
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Douglas Smiths The Russian Job tells the captivating story of how American volunteers saved millions of people from starvation in Bolshevik Russia....Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 29-Sep-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University of Regina Press, ISBN-13: 9780889775602)
Starving Ukraine examines the efforts of community groups and journalists who urged the Canadian government to denounce the starvation happening in Ukraine at the hands of the Soviets. In 1932-33, a famine – the Holomodor (“exterminati...Loe edasi...
Bridging the gap to bring Irish history to the British market, across a range of titles that are so deeply connected to British history as a whole....Loe edasi...
Winner of the Duff Cooper and Lionel Gelber prizes In 1932-33, nearly four million Ukrainians died of starvation, having been deliberately deprived of food. It is one of the most devastating episodes in the history of the twentieth centu...Loe edasi...
The depiction of historical humanitarian disasters in art exhibitions, news reports, monuments, and heritage landscapes has framed the harrowing images we associate with dispossession. People around the world are driven out of their homes and coun...Loe edasi...
Sari: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past: Local, Regional, and Global Perspectives
(Ilmumisaeg: 27-Mar-2018, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: University Press of Florida, ISBN-13: 9780813064673)
By examining the physical conditions of inmates that might have contributed to their institutionalization, as well as to the resulting health consequences, Jonny Geber sheds new and unprecedented light on Irelands Great Hunger....Loe edasi...
The scale of the Great Irish Famine, and the horror of it, were unprecedented. It permeated everything, the traces of which remain to this day. But the visual dimensions of the loss of life and the erosions of language and culture remained unaddresse...Loe edasi...
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 pr...Loe edasi...
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...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 22-Nov-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Hamilton Books, ISBN-13: 9780761870142)
Little is known about the Great Famine of 1869–1873, possibly the greatest calamity in the history of Iran. Using a variety of primary sources, including American missionary reports, this book describes and quantifies the devastatio...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 14-Nov-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Other Press (NY), ISBN-13: 9781590518342)
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A masterpiece of literary reportage, Hunger offers a critical global overview of the causes of mass starvation and the gross inadequacy of our response.Each day 25,000 men, women, and children die of hunger or malnutri...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 07-Sep-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Allen Lane, ISBN-13: 9780241003800)
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Winner of the DUFF COOPER and LIONEL GELBER prizes. A Sunday Times, The Times, FT and Evening Standard book of the year 2017 The momentous new book from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Gulag and Iron Curtain. In 1932-33, n...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 31-Aug-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107179936)
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 wh...Loe edasi...
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 wh...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Aug-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198738619)
From the time that the blight first came on the potatoes in Ireland in 1845, armed and masked men dubbed Molly Maguires had been raiding the houses of people deemed to be taking advantage of the rural poor. On some occasions, they represented themsel...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 09-Aug-2017, Hardback, Kirjastus: Springer International Publishing AG, ISBN-13: 9783319543413)
This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. It will bring together researchers from the natural and social sciences as well as the humanities. With reference to recent interdisciplinary concept...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 17-Jan-2017, Paperback / softback, Kirjastus: Verso Books, ISBN-13: 9781784786625)
Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history. Winner of the World History Association Book Award.Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned a...Loe edasi...
This work gives a multidisciplinary approach to assess and provide solutions to improve food security in Egypt. It has specific chapters on projection of climate change using IPCC AR5 models and regional climate model, and a chapter on population pro...Loe edasi...
Demonstrating that humanity faces an imminent and prolonged global food crisis, Michael Brownlee issues a clarion call and manifesto for a revolutionary movement to localize the global food supply. He lays out a practical guide for those who hope to...Loe edasi...
(Ilmumisaeg: 12-Sep-2016, Hardback, Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press, ISBN-13: 9781107121829)
Surveying government and crowd responses ranging from the late Middle Ages through to the early modern era, Buchanan Sharps illuminating study examines how the English government responded to one of the most intractable problems of the period: famin...Loe edasi...
Managing climate variability and change remains a key development and food security issue in Bangladesh. Despite significant investments, floods, droughts, and cyclones during the last two decades continue to cause extensive economic damage and impai...Loe edasi...
