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Alex de Waal

Mass Starvation

The History and Future of Famine

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The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all-but-disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles, and a volatile global economy.In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal, provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions, and why they ended. He analyzes starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-5095-2466-2
  • EAN: 9781509524662
  • Produktnummer: 22956624
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 264 S.
  • Masse: H21.6 cm x B13.5 cm

Über den Autor


Alex de Waal is Executive Director of the World Peace Foundation and a Research Professor at The Fletcher School at Tuft's University.

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