| Description |
xi, 429 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
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regular print |
| Contents |
Food, poverty, and development strategy in the People's Republic of China / Carl Riskin -- World nutritional problems / Nevin Scrimshaw -- Food entitlement and economic chains / Amartya Sen -- On ending hunger : the lessons of history / Robert W. Kates and Sara Millman |
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Toward understanding hunger / Sara Millman and Robert W. Kates -- Global climate and the origins of agriculture / Robley Matthews ... [et al.] -- Prehistoric patterns of hunger / Mark Nathan Cohen -- Agricultural intensification, urbanization and hierarchy / Lucile F. Newman ... [et al.] -- Responses to food crisis in the ancient Mediterranean world / Peter Garnsey -- War, food shortages, and relief measures in early China / Robin D.S. Yates -- The rise and fall of population and agriculture in the central Maya lowlands : 300 BC to present / B.L. Turner II -- Colonialism, international trade, and the nation-state / William Cossgrove ... [et al.] -- Nutritional status and mortality in eighteenth-century Europe / John D. Post -- Food supply in the Swiss canton of Bern, 1850 / Christian Pfister -- Organization, information, and entitlement in the emerging global food system / Sara Millman ... [et al.] |
| Summary |
Organized by time periods, this book addresses hunger first in the earliest ages of human habitation, then in the classical periods of Sumer, the Indus valley, Athens, and Rome millennia ago, later in the developing world economy of the past centuries, and finally in the ermerging global food system of the recent past. In examing the past, Hunger in History employs a conceptual framework of hunger, viewing food shortage in regions, food poverty in households, and food deprivation in individuals.-jacket |
| Analysis |
Famine |
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Food supply |
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Food supply Shortages |
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History |
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Hunger |
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Nutritional status |
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Overseas item |
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Poverty |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographies and index |
| Subject |
Famines -- History.
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Food supply -- History.
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Poverty -- History.
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Food Deprivation.
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Food Supply -- history.
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Hunger.
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Poverty.
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| Author |
Crossgrove, William C.
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Newman, Lucile F.
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| LC no. |
89006981 |
| ISBN |
1557860440 |
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