Can I read Famine : A Short History on EtoBox?

Famine : A Short History by Cormac Ó Gráda is a history book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Famine : A Short History about?

Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation--whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies--devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed author who chronicled the tragic Irish famine in books like __Black '47 and Beyond__, here traces the complete history of famine from the earliest records to today. Combining powerful storytelling with the latest evidence from economics and history, Ó Gráda explores the causes and profound consequences of famine over the past five millennia, from ancient Egypt to the killing fields of 1970s Cambodia, from the Great Famine of fourteenth-century Europe to the famine in Niger in 2005. He enriches our understanding of the most crucial and far-reaching aspects of famine, including the roles that population pressure, public policy, and human agency play in causing famine; how food markets can mitigate famine or make it worse; famine's long-term demographic consequences; and the successes and failures of globalized disaster relief. Ó Gráda demonstrates the central role famine has played in the econo

Who reads Famine : A Short History?

Author

Cormac Ó Gráda

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780691122373

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Social Science, Economics

Rating

3.36 / 5 (33 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14