Three famines : starvation and politics / Thomas Keneally.
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TextPublication details: New York [N.Y.] : PublicAffairs, c2011.Edition: 1st edDescription: 323 p. : maps ; 24 cmISBN: - 9781610390651
- Famines -- History. -- -- 19th century. -- Ireland
- Famines -- Political aspects. -- -- 19th century. -- India
- Famines -- Social aspects. -- -- 19th century. -- Bengal
- Famines -- Religious aspects. -- -- 19th century. -- Ethiopia
- Famines -- -- History -- 19th century. --
- Famines -- -- Bengal -- History. -- -- 19th century
- Famines -- -- History. -- -- 19th century
- Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852
- Bengal (India) -- History -- 20th century
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"Previously published in 2010 in Australia by Knopf"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and index.
The three famines -- Democracy and starvation -- Short commons -- Na ture's triggers -- God's hand -- Coping -- Villains : Ireland -- Villai ns and heroes : Bengal -- Villains : Ethiopia -- Whistleblowers -- Fami ne diseases -- Evictions, movements, and emigration in Bengal and Irela nd -- Evictions and movements, Mengistu-style -- Resistance -- Relief : Ireland -- Relief : Bengal -- Relief : Ethiopia -- Other catastrophes.
Discusses the Gorta Mor in 1840s Ireland, the famine in British-cont rolled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines in Ethiopia in the lat e 20th century, and explores the concept that while famine can be cause d by crop failures and weather conditions, famines are worsened by man- made choices such as politics and social and religious ideology.
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