Three famines : starvation and politics / Thomas Keneally.
Keneally, Thomas.
2011
HC79.F3 K46 2011 (Mapit)
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Title
Three famines : starvation and politics / Thomas Keneally.
Author
Keneally, Thomas.
Edition
1st ed.
ISBN
9781610390651
1610390652
Publication Details
New York : PublicAffairs, c2011.
Language
English
Description
323 p. : maps ; 24 cm.
Call Number
HC79.F3 K46 2011
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.809
Summary
Discusses the Gorta Mor in 1840s Ireland, the famine in British-controlled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines in Ethiopia in the late 20th century, and explores the concept that while famine can be caused by crop failures and weather conditions, famines are worsened by man-made choices such as politics and social and religious ideology.
Note
"Previously published in 2010 in Australia by Knopf"--T.p. verso.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Democracy and starvation
Short commons
Nature's triggers
God's hand
Coping
Villains : Ireland
Villains and heroes : Bengal
Villains : Ethiopia
Whistleblowers
Famine diseases
Evictions, movements, and emigration in Bengal and Ireland
Evictions and movements, Mengistu-style
Resistance
Relief : Ireland
Relief : Bengal
Relief : Ethiopia
Other catastrophes.

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