Famine: A Short History
Cormac Ó Gráda
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AbeBooks Seller Since March 27, 2001
About this Item
First Edition: the printing numerals are a full line beginning with 1. Fine condition. No wear to the binding. No slope, no twist to the book from reading or improper shelving. Pages tight and clean with no marks. No name of previous owner. No odor. No water damage. No soiling. The fine dust jacket priced at $27.95 (not clipped) shows no wear, no sun fading. DJ in an archival protector. Seller Inventory # MP24-229R
Bibliographic Details
Title: Famine: A Short History
Publisher: Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
Publication Date: 2009
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition
About this title
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 political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed author who chronicled the tragic Irish famine in books like Black '47 and Beyond, here traces the complete history of famine from the earliest records to today.
Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from the Great Famine of fourteenth-century Europe to the famine in Niger in 2005. He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine, including the roles that population pressure, public policy, and human agency play in causing famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes and failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places as different as Ukraine under Stalin, 1940s Bengal, and Mao's China. And he examines the prospects of a world free of famine.
This is the most comprehensive history of famine available, and is required reading for anyone concerned with issues of economic development and world poverty.
"This is a really fine contribution and delivers what it claims: a short account of the long history of famines in the world. Ó Gráda tells a well-integrated story, with excellent analytical content and empirical richness. This is an impeccably chiseled product by one of the world's leading famine analysts."--Amartya Sen, Nobel Prize-winning economist
"Ó Gráda tells an important story of the history of famine from earliest times until the present, and offers prognostications for the future. There is very little to rival this book.Famine is the most comprehensive short treatment of the subject available."--William Chester Jordan, author ofThe Great Famine
"This is an important book. Cormac Ó Gráda lays out a history of famine around the world and uses this to extract common themes around the causes, morphology, and consequences of and reactions to famine.Famine makes fascinating reading."--Peter Walker, Tufts University
"Original and important. The history of famine has not ended. Famine is relevant and timely."--Joachim von Braun, coauthor ofFamine in Africa
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