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Title A cultural history of famine : food security and the environment in India and Britain / edited by Ayesha Mukherjee
Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019

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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
Famines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
Humanities -- Social aspects -- India
Humanities -- Social aspects -- Great Britain
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Development / Sustainable Development.
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Environmental Policy.
Famines -- Social aspects
Humanities -- Social aspects
Great Britain
India
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Mukherjee, Ayesha, editor
LC no. 2018056523
ISBN 9781315316529
1315316528