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Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
Cormac Ó Gráda
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New perspectives on the history of famine—and the possibility of a famine-free world Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. The book begins with a taboo topic. Ó Gráda argues that cannibalism, ... Read more
New perspectives on the history of famine—and the possibility of a famine-free world Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries. The book begins with a taboo topic. Ó Gráda argues that cannibalism, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2020
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
248
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691210315
SKU
9780691210315
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About Cormac Ó Gráda
Cormac Ó Gráda is professor emeritus of economics at University College Dublin. His books include Famine: A Short History and Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (both Princeton).
Reviews for Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2015" "[I]ts final chapter offers salient discussion of future possibilities and constraints for food security."
-Liz Young, Times Higher Education "This book is written in calm prose, but its message is urgent: continue as we are and poverty will grow on our doorsteps."
-Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education "The Irish economist Cormac Ó Gráda has ... Read more
-Liz Young, Times Higher Education "This book is written in calm prose, but its message is urgent: continue as we are and poverty will grow on our doorsteps."
-Danny Dorling, Times Higher Education "The Irish economist Cormac Ó Gráda has ... Read more