Understanding Urban Policy: A Critical Approach Book

Not the most thorough history, but a accessible overview of recent famines & Irish famines, and the literature and competing theories about how they occur, mostly from an economic perspective. "Famine" here is very distinct from chronic food insecurity and malnutrition, contrasting with other books I've read that consider famine to be an extreme form of seasonal hunger. Grada challenges a few accepted theories that dominate (I think everyone who writes about famine feels compelled to challenge Sen but not give up on him). I wasn't convinced by a lot of the opnion here, but the collection was nice.