A cultural history of famine : food security and the environment in India and Britain /: food security and the environment in India and Britain. (2019)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- A cultural history of famine : food security and the environment in India and Britain /: food security and the environment in India and Britain. (2019)
- Main Title:
- A cultural history of famine : food security and the environment in India and Britain
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Ayesha Mukherjee.
- Editors:
- Mukherjee, Ayesha
- Contents:
- Introduction: A Cultural History of Famine Ayesha Mukherjee 1. Famine and Food Security in Early Modern England: Popular Agency and the Politics of Dearth John Walter 2. Subsistence Crises and Economic history: A Study of Eighteenth Century Bengal Rajat Datta 3. Climate Signals, Environment, and Livelihoods in the Long Seventeenth Century in India Vinita Damodaran, James Hamilton, and Rob Allan 4. Famine Chorography: Peter Mundy and the Gujarat famine, 1630-32 Ayesha Mukherjee 5. Rivers, Inundations, and Grain Scarcity in Early Colonial Bengal Ujjayan Bhattacharya 6. Chaotic Interruptions in the Economy: Droughts, Hurricanes and Monsoons in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy Lesa Scholl 7. Poorhouses and Gratuitous Famine Relief in Colonial North India Sanjay Sharma 8. Farming Tales: Narratives of Farming and Food Security in Mid-twentieth Century Britain Michael Winter 9. The Economy of Hunger: Representing the Bengal Famine of 1943 Amlan Das Gupta 10. Are We Performing Dearth or Is Dearth Performing Us, in Modern Productions of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus? Julie Hudson
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : Routledge
- Publication Date:
- 2019
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
- Subjects:
- 363.80954
Famines -- Social aspects -- India -- History
Famines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History
Humanities -- Social aspects -- India
Humanities -- Social aspects -- Great Britain - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781315316505
9781315316512
9781315316499
9781315316529 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781138230927
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