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R. Douglas Hurt
Famine in World History

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive synthesis of the complexities of famine in world history, from antiquity to the present day.The work explores the broad causes and consequences of famine ove…

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R. Douglas Hurt
Famine in World History

This book provides a concise yet comprehensive synthesis of the complexities of famine in world history, from antiquity to the present day.The work explores the broad causes and consequences of famine ove…

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Yunte Deng
The History of Famine Relief in China

The Cambridge China Library

Deng Yunte was a respected academic and artist. He was also a propagandist and political commentator, before becoming one of the earliest victims of the Cultural Revolution. He committed suicide in 1966. …

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The Politics of Famine in European History and Memory

This is the first book to bring together groundbreaking scholarship focusing on the various ways in which famines result from political decision-making, and how the threat, occurrence, relief, or memory o…

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Economic and Social History of a European Famine

Routledge Explorations in Economic History

Why do efforts to combat hunger succeed in some regions but fail in others? History offers many examples of agricultural societies facing severe harvest failures and subsequent food shortages, yet with st…

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Padraic X. Scanlan
Rot

'A vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine . . . Richly underpinned by research in contemporary sources and firmly rooted in historical scholarship.' Fintan O'Toole'A vivid, polemical narrativ…

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The Prendergast Letters

The Prendergast Letters Collection, one of the noteworthy manuscript collections at Boston College's John J. Burns Library, provides an account of the experiences of an ordinary family in County Kerry, Ir…

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Canada and the Great Irish Famine

McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History

In the summer of 1847, over four hundred ships arrived in the Gulf of St Lawrence, carrying Irish men, women, and children who were fleeing the starvation and misery of the Great Potato Famine. Tens of th…

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Helge Ingstad
The Land of Feast and Famine

The young Norwegian was Helge Ingstad, now famous for his discovery in 1960 of a Viking village at L'Anse aux Meadows (on the northern tip of Newfoundland) -- the oldest known European settlement in North…

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Charlie Taverner
Daily Bread

A village gathers the harvest and celebrates with a feast. A cook adds foraged herbs to a pottage which will feed the entire household of a country estate. Lifting hands in prayer, a monk begins his fast.…

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Bryan Macmahon
The Great Famine in Tralee and North Kerry

Bryan MacMahon focuses on human stories rather than statistics as he depicts the unprecedented events, upheavals and challenges of the famine years through the eyes of those who were there and reveals inf…

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John Lidwell-Durnin
Explaining Famine in the British Empire

Famine is humanity's oldest fear. Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoki…

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Niall O'Dowd
From Tragedy to Triumph

The Irish Famine forced a million Irish to flee to America, where they faced discrimination and hatred as unwanted immigrants. They sailed on coffin ships, destitute and desperate. However, the new immigr…

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