@article{333683, recid = {333683}, author = {Ó Gráda, Cormac.}, title = {Famine : a short history /}, publisher = {Princeton University Press,}, address = {Princeton, N.J. :}, pages = {xiii, 327 p. :}, year = {2009}, abstract = {"Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia ... He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes or failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the economic and political histories of places"--From publisher description.}, url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/333683}, }