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List of Figures and Tables XI
Acknowledgments XV
Chapter I The Third Horseman 1
The Ultimate Check 8
Time and Place 13
How Common Were Famines in the Past? 25
Remembering Famine 39
Chapter II The Horrors of Famine 45
Crime 52
Slavery 56
Prostitution, Infanticide, and Child Abandonment 59
Cannibalism 63
Chapter III Prevention and Coping 69
Famine Foods 73
Country Misers and Calculating Merchants 78
Migration 81
Chapter IV Famine Demography 90
Hierarchies of Suffering 90
How Many Died? 92
Gender and Age 98
Missing Births 102
What Do People Die of during Famines? 108
Long-term Impacts 121
Chapter V Markets and Famines 129
Profiteers 129
French Économistes and Adam Smith 137
Markets and Famines in Practice 143
Transport 155
Conclusion 157
Chapter VI Entitlements: Bengal and Beyond 159
Bengal 159
Food Supply and Market Failure 166
Winners and Losers 178
Conclusion 184
Chapter VII Public and Private Action 195
Feeding the Starving 195
Means of Relief 210
Corruption 216
NGOs and the Globalization of Relief 218
Famine Relief as State Aid 225
Chapter VIII The "Violence of Government" 229
War by Another Means 229
The USSR 233
The Chinese Famine of 1959-61 241
Ethiopia and North Korea 254
Chapter IX An End to Famine? 259
Agricultural Trends 262
Climate and Desertification 269
Where Backwardness Persists 274
A Stitch in Time 278
References 283
Index 319
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Mark Waner
reviewed Famine: A Short History on May 02, 2011
Famine
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.
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