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Mass starvation : the history and future of famine /
"The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all-but-disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles, and a volatile global economy. In...
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| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, UK ;
Polity,
2018.
Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA : 2018. |
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Table of Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: <ul style="font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"> Contents Preface and Acknowledgements Part I: Perspectives on Famine and Starvation Chapter 1: An Unacknowledged Achievement Chapter 2: Famines as Atrocities Chapter 3: Malthus's Zombie Chapter 4: A Short History of Modern Famines Part II: How Famines Were Almost Eliminated Chapter 5: Demography, Economics, Public Health Chapter 6: Politics, War, Genocide Chapter 7: The Humanitarian International Chapter 8: Ethiopia: No Longer the Land of Famine Part III: The Persistence and Return of Famines Chapter 9: The Famine that isn't Coming Chapter 10: The New Atrocity Famines Chapter 11: Mass Starvation in the Future Notes References Index.