Author: Todd Komarnicki
Publisher: Arcade Publishing
Keywords: famine
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 1997-01-06
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1559703652
ISBN-13: 9781559703659
When the corpse of a young man is found in one of Manhattan’s most exclusive neighborhoods, a police detective decides the man has been murdered and launches a maverick investigation. As he plunges into the mysterious case, his own past begins to intertwine with the history of the victim and he is haunted every step of the way by an unidentifiable woman and her infant daughter who lurk in the shadows .
Author: Cormac Ó Gráda
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: history, short, famine
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2009-03-16
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0691122377
ISBN-13: 9780691122373
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 conseque
Author: Seshadri Kannan
Publisher: APH Publishing Corporation
Keywords: fertilizers, famine, food
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 813130356X
ISBN-13: 9788131303566
Author: E. A. Brayley Hodgetts
Publisher: BiblioLife
Keywords: famine, russian, track
Number of Pages: 248
Published: 2009-06-04
List price: $25.75
ISBN-10: 1110484534
ISBN-13: 9781110484539
Author: Various
Publisher: Warren Press
Keywords: relief, famine, food
Number of Pages: 172
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $27.45
ISBN-10: 1406706019
ISBN-13: 9781406706017
TRANSIT DEPARTMENT FOOD, FAMINE AND RELIEF 1940-1946 LEAGUE OF NATIONS, GENEVA 1946 TABLE OF CONTENTS PAGE PREFACE iv I. INTRODUCTORY SUMMARY 1 1. Food Rationing Systems During the Second World War 1 2. Food Consumption Levels During the War 4 3. The Post-War Food Crisis 5 4. Relief Activities 6 5. Public Health 7 II. FOOD RATIONING AND CONSUMPTION DURING THE WAR 8 1 . Germany, German-dominated Europe, Finland and Italy 1 6 A. Countries in which Rationing was Total 16 B. Countries in which Rationing was Partial 52 C. Summary of Conclusions 53 2. The U. S. S. R. 55 3. The United Kingdom and the
Author: William Chester Jordan
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Keywords: famine
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 1997-12-15
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0691058911
ISBN-13: 9780691058917
The horrors of the Great Famine (1315-1322), one of the severest catastrophes ever to strike northern Europe, lived on for centuries in the minds of Europeans who recalled tales of widespread hunger, class warfare, epidemic disease, frighteningly high mortality, and unspeakable crimes. Until now, no one has offered a perspective of what daily life was actually like throughout the entire region devastated by this crisis, nor has anyone probed far into its causes. Here, the distinguished historian William Jordan provides the first comprehensive inquiry into the Famine from Ireland to western Pol
Author: Peter Gray
Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
Keywords: discoveries, abrams, famine, irish
Number of Pages: 191
Published: 1995-10-15
List price: $12.95
ISBN-10: 0810928957
ISBN-13: 9780810928954
A new addition to the innovative, highly illustrated series examines the Irish potato famine of 1945, explaining its causes, the misguided efforts to relieve it, and its effect on modern Ireland and America. Original.
