Author: H. K. Mishra
Publisher: South Asia Books
Keywords: india, poverty, famines
Number of Pages: 350
Published: 1991-10-01
List price: $47.50
ISBN-10: 8170243742
ISBN-13: 9788170243748

IS A STUDY IN A HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVE THE GROWTH OF POVERTY IN ORISSA.

Author: Amartya Sen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: deprivation, entitlement, essay, famines, poverty
Number of Pages: 270
Published: 1983-01-20
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0198284632
ISBN-13: 9780198284635

This book focuses on the causes of starvation in general and famines in particular. The traditional analysis of famines is shown to be fundamentally defective, and the author develops an alternative analysis.

Author: Brian Faga
Publisher: Basic Book
Keywords: fate, civilizations, nino, emperors, famines, floods
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2009-02-09
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0465005306
ISBN-13: 9780465005307

Before 1997, the name "El Niño" was unknown to most ordinary folks. Meteorologists, oceanographers, commercial fishers, and weather buffs knew of this periodic climatic anomaly, but to the everyday person on the street, a few degrees’ difference in the Pacific Ocean’s temperature was irrelevant. Then one of the most powerful El Niños in recorded history caused bitter freezes in Europe, brutal snowstorms and floods in western North America, and deadly droughts throughout the South Pacific. People sat up and took notice as a relatively tiny change in oceanic temperature resulted in

Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: third, world, making, famines, holocausts, niã±o, victorian
Number of Pages: 470
Published: 2002-07
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1859843824
ISBN-13: 9781859843826

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of high imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants’ lives.

Author: Mike Davis
Publisher: Verso
Keywords: third, world, making, famines, holocausts, nino, victorian
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 1859847390
ISBN-13: 9781859847398

Examining a series of El Nino-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations.

Author: Michael Mortimore
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: west, africa, desertification, famines, drought, farmers, adapting
Number of Pages: 324
Published: 1989-04-28
List price: $74.95
ISBN-10: 0521323126
ISBN-13: 9780521323123

This book embodies the results of thirteen years of research in drought-prone rural areas in the semi-arid zone of northern Nigeria. It describes the patterns of adaptive behaviour observed among Hausa, Ful’be and Manga communities in response to recurrent drought in the 1970s and 1980s. The question of desertification is explored in an area where the visible evidence of moving sand dunes is dramatic blame are examined in relation to the field evidence. A critique is offered of deterministic theories and authoritarian solutions. Professor Mortimore demonstrates a parallel between the obs