Mass Starvation by Waal, Alex de -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Table of Contents Title page Copyright page Tables and Figures

Tables Figures

Preface

Notes

Acknowledgements Introduction Part I: Perspectives on Famine and Starvation

1: An Unacknowledged Achievement

The Biggest Picture Encounters with Famines Organization of This Book Notes

2: Famines as Atrocities

Lemkin's Path Not Taken What Is a Famine? What Is Mass Atrocity? What Is Starvation? Silences and Singularities The Scholarly Gap between Famine and Atrocity Moralities and Practicalities A Common Agenda for Understanding Famine and Mass Atrocity Notes

3: Malthus's Zombie

More People, Fewer Famine Deaths Malthus's Two Concepts of ‘Famine’ Early Incarnations of Malthus's Zombie in India and Ireland Subsequent Incarnations of Malthus's Zombie Important Slayings of Malthus's Zombie Famines and Feminism Notes

4: A Short History of Modern Famines

A Tragedy in Five Acts Prelude: the Year Without a Summer Numbers The Big Picture Act One: Imperial Holocausts to 1914 Act Two: the Extended World War, 1915–50 Act Three: Post-Colonial Totalitarianism: 1950–85 Act Four: Small Wars, Small Famines: 1986 Onwards Notes

Part II: How Famines Were Almost Eliminated

5: Demography, Economics, Public Health

Sifting the Hypotheses The Demographic Transition Economic Growth, Agriculture, Markets Public Health Conclusion Notes

6: Politics, War, Genocide

Political Freedoms War, Dictatorship and Atrocity Endings Notes

7: The Humanitarian International

The Humanitarian Cascade Humanitarian Aid Crimes Without Names? Notes

8: Ethiopia: No Longer the Land of Famine

Good News Is No News Malthus and Famines in Ethiopia A Brief Catalogue of Ethiopia's Famines Climate Change Poverty and Growth Markets Political Decision: Democracy and Public Action Conclusion Notes

Part III: The Persistence and Return of Famines

9: The Famine that Isn't Coming

New and Newer Famines Will Climate Change Cause Famine? Notes

10: The New Atrocity Famines

The Resurgence of Great Famines? Who Cries Famine and for What Purpose? Darfur: Famine as Counter-Insurgency Northern Uganda: Famine as Counter-Insurgency Somalia's Multi-Causal Famine Yemen: a Nationwide Famine, Ignored Forced Starvation in Syria South Sudan's Famine Crimes Northern Nigeria's Insurgency Famine Counter-humanitarianism Notes

11: Mass Starvation in the Future

The History and Future of Famine Stopping Famines in a Volatile World Stopping Famine Crimes Notes

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