A cultural history of famine : food security and the environment in India and Britain / edited by Ayesha Mukherjee.
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TextSeries: Routledge environmental humanitiesPublication details: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019Edition: 1st edDescription: vi,227pContent type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceSubject(s): Famines -- Social aspects -- India -- History | Famines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History | Humanities -- Social aspects -- India | Humanities -- Social aspects -- Great BritainAdditional physical formats: Print version:: Cultural history of famineDDC classification: 363.90954 | Item type | Current library | Home library | Call number | Status | Notes | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| JKRC Social Science Complex | JKRC Social Science Complex | 363.90954 MUK (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | JKRC-19 20 | SSE240 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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