Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
New perspectives on the history of famine--and the possibility of a famine-free worldFamines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered…
Specifikacia Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
New perspectives on the history of famine--and the possibility of a famine-free worldFamines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Gr da, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives on key questions raised by famines around the globe between the seventeenth and twenty-first centuries.The book begins with a taboo topic. Gr da argues that cannibalism, while by no means a universal feature of famines and never responsible for more than a tiny proportion of famine deaths, has probably been more common during very severe famines than previously thought. The book goes on to offer new interpretations of two of
Is Eating People Wrong?
On Liberty and Other Essays
Between Past and Future
Nature and Other Essays
Anarchism and Other Essays
Nature and Other Essays