Cultural History of Famine

Cultural History of Famine

Food Security and the Environment in India and Britain

Taylor & Francis Ltd

01/2019

228

Dura

Inglês

9781138230927

15 a 20 dias

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Introduction: A Cultural History of Famine Ayesha Mukherjee 1. Famine and Food Security in Early Modern England: Popular Agency and the Politics of Dearth John Walter 2. Subsistence Crises and Economic history: A Study of Eighteenth Century Bengal Rajat Datta 3. Climate Signals, Environment, and Livelihoods in the Long Seventeenth Century in India Vinita Damodaran, James Hamilton, and Rob Allan 4. Famine Chorography: Peter Mundy and the Gujarat famine, 1630-32 Ayesha Mukherjee 5. Rivers, Inundations, and Grain Scarcity in Early Colonial Bengal Ujjayan Bhattacharya 6. Chaotic Interruptions in the Economy: Droughts, Hurricanes and Monsoons in Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy Lesa Scholl 7. Poorhouses and Gratuitous Famine Relief in Colonial North India Sanjay Sharma 8. Farming Tales: Narratives of Farming and Food Security in Mid-twentieth Century Britain Michael Winter 9. The Economy of Hunger: Representing the Bengal Famine of 1943 Amlan Das Gupta 10. Are We Performing Dearth or Is Dearth Performing Us, in Modern Productions of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus? Julie Hudson