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Hunger in history : food shortage, poverty, and deprivation

Title
  1. Hunger in history : food shortage, poverty, and deprivation / general editor, Lucile F. Newman ; associate editors William Crossgrove [and others].
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  1. Cambridge, Mass., USA : B. Blackwell, 1990.

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Additional authors
  1. Newman, Lucile F.
  2. Crossgrove, William C.
Description
  1. xi, 429 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
Summary
  1. Organized by time periods, this book addresses hunger first in the earliest ages of human habitation, then in the classical periods of Sumer, the Indus valley, Athens, and Rome millennia ago, later in the developing world economy of the past centuries, and finally in the ermerging global food system of the recent past. In examining the past, Hunger in History employs a conceptual framework of hunger, viewing food shortage in regions, food poverty in households, and food deprivation in individuals.-jacket.
Subject
  1. Famines > History
  2. Food supply > History
  3. Poverty > History
  4. Hunger
  5. Food Deprivation
  6. Food Supply > history
  7. Hunger
  8. Poverty
  9. poverty
  10. Famines
  11. Food supply
  12. Armut
  13. Ernährungskrise
  14. Geschichte
  15. Hungersnot
  16. Lebensmittelversorgung
  17. Welternährung
  18. Aufsatzsammlung
  19. Voedselvoorziening
  20. Armoede
  21. Hongersnood
  22. Sult
  23. Historisk framstilling
  24. Pest
  25. Befolkning
  26. Fattigdom
  27. Jordbruk
  28. Verden
  29. Famines > History
  30. Food supply > History
  31. Poverty > History
  32. Famines > Histoire
  33. Pauvreté > Histoire
  34. Aliments > Approvisionnement > Histoire
Genre/Form
  1. History
Contents
  1. Toward understanding hunger / Sara Millman and Robert W. Kates -- Global climate and the origins of agriculture / Robley Matthews [and others] -- Prehistoric patterns of hunger / Mark Nathan Cohen -- Agricultural intensification, urbanization and hierarchy / Lucile F. Newman [and others] -- Responses to food crisis in the ancient Mediterranean world / Peter Garnsey -- War, food shortages, and relief measures in early China / Robin D.S. Yates -- The rise and fall of population and agriculture in the central Maya lowlands : 300 BC to present / B.L. Turner II -- Colonialism, international trade, and the nation-state / William Cossgrove [and others] -- Nutritional status and mortality in eighteenth-century Europe / John D. Post -- Food supply in the Swiss canton of Bern, 1850 / Christian Pfister -- Organization, information, and entitlement in the emerging global food system / Sara Millman [and others].
  2. Food, poverty, and development strategy in the People's Republic of China / Carl Riskin -- World nutritional problems / Nevin Scrimshaw -- Food entitlement and economic chains / Amartya Sen -- On ending hunger : the lessons of history / Robert W. Kates and Sara Millman.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographies and index.