Description |
1 online resource |
Series |
Routledge environmental humanities |
Contents |
Introduction : a cultural history of famine / Ayesha Mukherjee -- Famine and food security in early modern England : popular agency and the politics of dearth / John Walter -- Subsistence crises and economic history : a study of eighteenth century Bengal / Rajat Datta -- Climate signals, environment, and livelihoods in the long seventeenth century in India / Vinita Damodaran, James Hamilton, and Rob Allan -- Famine chorography : Peter Mundy and the Gujarat famine, 1630-32 / Ayesha Mukherjee -- Rivers, inundations, and grain scarcity in early colonial Bengal / Ujjayan Bhattacharya -- Chaotic interruptions in the economy : droughts, hurricanes and monsoons in Harriet Martineau's Illustrations of political economy / Lesa Scholl -- Poorhouses and gratuitous famine relief in colonial North India / Sanjay Sharma -- Farming tales : narratives of farming and food security in mid-twentieth century Britain / Michael Winter -- The economy of hunger : representing the Bengal famine of 1943 / Amlan Das Gupta -- Are we performing dearth or is dearth performing us, in modern productions of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus? / Julie Hudson |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher |
Subject |
Famines -- Social aspects -- India -- History
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Famines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
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Humanities -- Social aspects -- India
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Humanities -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.
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POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
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Famines -- Social aspects
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Humanities -- Social aspects
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Great Britain
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India
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Genre/Form |
History
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Form |
Electronic book
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Author |
Mukherjee, Ayesha, editor
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LC no. |
2018056523 |
ISBN |
9781315316529 |
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1315316528 |
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