A cultural history of famine :  food security and the environment in India and Britain / 
edited by Ayesha Mukherjee. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - Abingdon, Oxon ;  New York, NY :  Routledge,  2019. 
 - vi,227p. ; 
 - Routledge environmental humanities .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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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<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2018056523 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Famines--Social aspects--History--India<br/>Famines--Social aspects--History.--Great Britain<br/>Humanities--Social aspects--India.<br/>Humanities--Social aspects--Great Britain.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.90954  / MUK