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
• 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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