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Famine: A Short History Paperback - 2010
by Ó Gráda, Cormac
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- Title Famine: A Short History
- Author Ó Gráda, Cormac
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Paperback
- Condition UsedAcceptable
- Pages 344
- Language ENG
- Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A.
- Date 2010-08
- Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 0WOPD4004UEQ
- ISBN 9780691147970
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From the rear cover
"This is a really fine contribution and delivers what it claims: a short account of the long history of famines in the world. Grda 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
" Grda 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 of The Great Famine
"This is an important book. Cormac Grda 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 of Famine in Africa