Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and - Its Futur

Zusatztext "Ó Gráda's book offers a sobering reminder of the importance of making judgments based on good data and unhindered by ideological filters." ---Douglas Gollin, Foreign Affairs Informationen zum Autor Cormac Ó Gráda is professor emeritus of economics at University College Dublin. His books include Famine: A Short History and Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (both Princeton). Klappentext Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. Thought-provoking and important, this is essential reading for historians, economists, demographers, and anyone else who is interested in the history and possible future of famine. Zusammenfassung Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac O Grada, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new pers Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction 1 1 Eating People Is Wrong: Famine's Darkest Secret? 11 2 "Sufficiency and Sufficiency and Sufficiency": Revisiting the Great Bengal Famine of 1943-44 38 3 Markets and Famines: Pre-industrial Europe and Beyond 92 4 Great Leap into Great Famine 130 5 Famine Is Not the Problem-For Now 174 Bibliography 209 Index 231

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• Authors: Cormac Ao Graada, Cormac O. Grada, Cormac O Grada, Cormac Ó Gráda, Cormac O. Grada
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 13.03.2015
• EAN: 9780691165356
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16535-6
• No. of pages: 248
• Dimensions: 165 mm x 243 mm x 25 mm
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Social sciences, law, business > Business > General, dictionaries; NATURE / Natural Resources, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, Food security & supply, Food security and supply