Scarcity in the Modern World : History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075 /: History, Politics, Society and Sustainability, 1800-2075. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: John Brewer, Neil Fromer, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, Frank Trentmann.
• Editors: Brewer, John, 1947-; Fromer, Neil; Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972-; Trentmann, Frank
• Contents: List of Images1. Introduction - John Brewer (California Institute of Technology, USA), Neil Fromer (California Institute of Technology, USA), Frederik Albritton Johnson (University of Chigaco, USA) and Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)Part I: Making Scarcity2. Through a Looking Glass Less Darkly: The Economics of Scarcity and Shortage - Jean-Laurent Rosenthal (California Institute of Technology, USA)3. Taking the Scarce out of Scarcity: A Perspective from the Developing World - Lyla Metha (Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Norway)4. Rethinking the Relationships between Shortage, Poverty and Hunger: An Anthropological Perspective - Rick Wilk (Indiana University, USA)5. Renewable Energy: A Story of Abundance and Scarcity - Neil Fromer (California Institute of Techonolgy, USA)Part II: The Power of Projection6. Coal Futures: Forecasting and Scale in Victorian Britain - Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (University of Chicago, USA)7. The Great Resources Myth - Dave Rutledge (California Institute of Technology, USA)8. Escapology, or How to Escape Malthusian Traps - Jörg Friedrichs (University of Oxford, UK)Part III: Coping, Managing, Innovating at Different Scales9. U.S. Mobilization in World War II as a Model for Coping with Scarcity - Hugh Rockoff (Rutgers University, USA)10. Scarcity and Innovation: Lessons fromn the British Cotton Textile Industry in the U.S. Civil War - Walker Hanlon (University of California, Los Angeles, USA)11. China's Great Leap Famine: Malthus, Marx, Moa, and Material Scarcity - Sigrid Schmalzer (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA)12. Encounters with Scarcity at a Micro-scale: Householders' Responses to Drought as a Contiuum of 'normal' pratice - Heather Chappells (University of British Columbia, Canada)13. Addressing Waters and Critical Materials Scarcity Through Sustainable Desalination - Mamadou S. Diallo (California Institute of Technology, USA), Neil Fromer (California Institute of Technology, USA) and Madhusudhana Rao Kotte (California Institute of Technology, USA)Part IV: Politics of Distribution14. Hard Times and Families in the Past in Europe and Asia, 1700-1900 - James Lee (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Hong Kong)15. A Climate of Scarcity: Electricity in India, 1899-2016 - Elizabeth Chatterjee (University of Chicago, USA)16. Scarcity as Development: The Politics of Urban Modernization in Lagos, 1930s-1950s - David Lamoureux (University of Cambridge, UK)17. Living with Energy Shortages: Distributional Conflict and the Politics of Time between the Second World War and the First Oil Crisis, 1973 - Hiroki Shin (Birkbeck College, University of London, UK) and Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)18. Food Shortages: The Role and Limitations of Markets in Resolving Food Crises in Sub-Saharan Africa, 2002-2012 - Emma Stephens (Pitzer College, USA)19 Conclusion: Outlook and Policy Implications - John Brewer (California Institute of Technology, USA), Neil Fromer (California Institute of Technology, USA), Fredrik Albritton Jonsson (University of Chicago, USA) and Frank Trentmann (Birkbeck, University of London, UK)BibliographyIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (312 pages)
• Subjects: History: earliest times to present day; Economic history; History -- Modern -- General; Business & Economics -- Economic History; History -- World; General & world history
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350040922; 1350040924
• Related ISBNs: 9781350040915
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