Three famines : starvation and politics / Thomas Keneally
- Bib ID:
- 5714601
- Format:
- Book
- Author:
- Keneally, Thomas, 1935-
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Description:
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- New York : PublicAffairs, ©2011
- ix, 323 p. : maps ; 25 cm.
- ISBN:
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- 9781610390651
- 1610390652
- 9781610390668
- 1610390660
- Full contents:
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- Introduction: The three famines
- 1. Democracy and starvation
- 2. Short commons
- 3. Nature's triggers
- 4. God's hand
- 5. Coping
- 6. Villains : Ireland
- 7. Villains and heroes : Bengal
- 8. Villains : Ethiopia
- 9. Whistleblowers
- 10. Famine diseases
- 11. Evictions, movements, and emigration in Bengal and Ireland
- 12. Evictions and movements, Mengistu-style
- 13. Resistance
- 14. Relief : Ireland
- 15. Relief : Bengal
- 16. Relief : Ethiopia
- 17. Other catastrophes.
- Notes:
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- Previously published: Australia : Knopf, 2010.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 303-307) and index.
- Subject:
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- Famines -- History
- Famines -- Political aspects
- Famines -- Social aspects
- Famines -- Religious aspects
- Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
- Famines -- India -- Bengal -- History
- Famines -- Ethiopia -- History
- Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852
- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
- Bengal (India) -- History -- 20th century
- Ethiopia -- History -- 20th century
- Copyright:
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- Publication date:
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