Famine books

298 books were found.

Famines During the 'Little Ice Age' (1300-1800): Socionatural Entanglements in Premodern Societies

Famines During the 'Little Ice Age' (1300-1800): Socionatural...

Author: Dominik Collet ,  Maximilian Schuh
ISBN: 9783319543413
Format: Hardback
$310.47

This highly interdisciplinary book studies historical famines as an interface of nature and culture. With reference...  Read More >>

The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest...

Author: Tim Pat Coogan ,  Roger Clark
ISBN: 9781541460942
Format: Audio
$79.17

In this sweeping history, Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish...  Read More >>

Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's View

Poverty in Ireland 1837: Szegenyseg Irlandban - A Hungarian's...

Author: Jozsef Eotvos ,  Sheila Jones
ISBN: 9781908420213
Format: Paperback
$38.68

A decade before the Great Famine, millions of Irish suffered a level of poverty that horrified the rest of Europe....  Read More >>

Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography Collection

Reimagining a Lost Armenian Home: The Dildilian Photography...

Author: Armen T. Marsoobian
ISBN: 9781784537500
Format: Paperback
$54.99

Unique photographic record of Armenian history  Read More >>

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958-62

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating...

Author: Frank Dikötter
ISBN: 9781408886366
Format: Paperback
$24.99

An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine Winner of the BBC Samuel Johnson Prize 2011  Read More >>

The World Food Problem: Toward Understanding and Ending Undernutrition in the Developing World

The World Food Problem: Toward Understanding and Ending...

Author: Howard D. Leathers ,  Phillips Foster
ISBN: 9781626374515
Format: Paperback
$67.15

"Continuing in the tradition of its acclaimed predecessors, the sixth edition of The World Food Problem reflects...  Read More >>

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making...

Author: Mike Davis
ISBN: 9781784786625
Format: Paperback
$26.99

Bestselling, magisterial melding of global environmental history and global political history  Read More >>

Future of Food Gaps in Egypt: Obstacles and Opportunities

Future of Food Gaps in Egypt: Obstacles and Opportunities...

Author: Samiha A. H. Ouda ,  Abd El-Hafeez Zohry
ISBN: 9783319469416
Format: Paperback
$181.10

This work gives a multidisciplinary approach to assess and provide solutions to improve food security in Egypt....  Read More >>

The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself in Uncertain Times

The Local Food Revolution: How Humanity Will Feed Itself...

Author: Michael Brownlee
ISBN: 9781623170004
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Michael Brownlee, cofounder of the nonprofit Local Food Shift Group, issues a call for a revolutionary movement...  Read More >>

Food Security Among Small-Scale Agricultural Producers in Southern Africa

Food Security Among Small-Scale Agricultural Producers...

Author: Josephine Phillip Msangi
ISBN: 9783319363479
Format: Paperback
$258.72

The book focuses on food security highlighting the role of indigenous knowledge and scientific research in addressing...  Read More >>

Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh

Climate Change Risks and Food Security in Bangladesh...

Author: Winston Yu ,  Mozaharul Alam
ISBN: 9781138970908
Format: Paperback
$92.99

First Published in 2010. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.  Read More >>

Subject to Famine: Food Crisis and Economic Change in Western India, 1860-1920

Subject to Famine: Food Crisis and Economic Change in...

Author: Michelle Burge McAlpin
ISBN: 9780691641188
Format: Hardback
$190.00

Michelle McAlpin moves beyond the concerns of previous studies of famine (most of which focus on governmental procedures...  Read More >>

An American Philosophy of Social Security: Evolution and Issues

An American Philosophy of Social Security: Evolution...

Author: James Douglas Brown
ISBN: 9780691646459
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Is our system of social security, which involves an annual dispersement of thirty billion dollars, as effective...  Read More >>

The Famine Irish: Emigration and the Great Hunger

The Famine Irish: Emigration and the Great Hunger

Author: Ciaran Reilly
ISBN: 9781845888909
Format: Paperback
$49.99

From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the...  Read More >>

Famine in Somalia

Famine in Somalia

Author: Daniel G. Maxwell ,  Nasir Majid
ISBN: 9781849045759
Format: Paperback
$49.95

A hard-hitting analysis of an African famine: why it happened, why it need not have happened and how the securitisation...  Read More >>

Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power in the Progressive Era

Disaster Citizenship: Survivors, Solidarity, and Power...

Author: Jacob A.C. Remes
ISBN: 9780252081378
Format: Paperback
$64.99

"A century ago, governments buoyed by Progressive Era–beliefs began to assume greater responsibility for protecting...  Read More >>

Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics

Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics

Author: Enda Delaney ,  Breandán Mac Suibhne
ISBN: 9780415836302
Format: Hardback
$305.00

Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some...  Read More >>

Undernutrition and Public Policy in India: Investing in the future

Undernutrition and Public Policy in India: Investing...

Author: Sonalde Desai ,  Lawrence Haddad
ISBN: 9781138952966
Format: Hardback
$336.00

Despite substantial economic growth, India still has one of the highest undernutrition rates in the world; it is...  Read More >>

Victims of Ireland's Great Famine: The Bioarchaeology of Mass Burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse

Victims of Ireland's Great Famine: The Bioarchaeology...

Author: Jonny Geber
ISBN: 9780813061177
Format: Hardback
$224.27

With one million dead, and just as many forced to emigrate, the Irish Famine (1845-52) is among the worst health...  Read More >>

Notice to Quit: The Great Famine Evictions

Notice to Quit: The Great Famine Evictions

Author: L. Perry Curtis
ISBN: 9780990468660
Format: Paperback
$39.60

This richly illustrated pamphlet seeks to contextualize the mass evictions by focussing on the ideological and economic...  Read More >>

Death in Every Paragraph: Journalism and the Great Irish Famine

Death in Every Paragraph: Journalism and the Great Irish...

Author: Michael Foley
ISBN: 9780990468653
Format: Paperback
$39.60

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The state of food insecurity in the world 2015: meeting the 2015 International Hunger Targets, taking stock of uneven progress

The state of food insecurity in the world 2015: meeting...

Author: Food and Agriculture Organization
ISBN: 9789251087855
Format: Paperback
$55.00

This year's annual State of Food Insecurity in the World report takes stock of progress made towards achieving the...  Read More >>

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