Cormac O Grada

Famine

A Short History

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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 Fa… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-691-14797-0
EAN: 9780691147970
Produktnummer: 7784249
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 344 S.
Masse: H21.4 cm x B13.8 cm x D2.2 cm 454 g
Abbildungen: 7 halftones. 16 line illus. 11 tables.
Gewicht: 454
Sonstiges: Tertiary Education (US: College)

Über den Autor

Cormac ÓGráda is professor of economics at University College Dublin. His books include Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce (Princeton), Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (Princeton), and Ireland: A New Economic History, 1780-1939.