Famine, Land, and Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Famine, Land, and Politics write by Peter Gray. This book was released on 1999. Famine, Land, and Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Explores the response of British government and public opinion to the Irish Famine in the light of contemporary debates about the nature and future of Irish society. The ideological filters through which the famine was perceived are discussed and the effects of the ideological rifts within the British elite are examined. The author argues that the politics of `relief' had been predetermined by English views of Irish society. Distributed by ISBS. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics
Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics write by Enda Delaney. This book was released on 2015-11-19. Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Ireland’s Great Famine of 1845–52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no effort to assert "the animal’s right to existence," passively accepting their fate. But the poor did resist. In word and deed, they defied landlords, merchants and agents of the state: they rioted for food, opposed rent and rate collection, challenged the decisions of those controlling relief works, and scorned clergymen who attributed their suffering to the Almighty. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Famine, and illuminate how the crisis itself transformed popular politics. Contributors include distinguished scholars of modern Ireland and emerging historians and critics. This book is essential reading for students of modern Ireland, and the global history of collective action.
Gourmets in the Land of Famine
Gourmets in the Land of Famine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gourmets in the Land of Famine write by Seung-Joon Lee. This book was released on 2011-01-05. Gourmets in the Land of Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A study of the politics of rice in Canton, this book sheds new light on the local history of the city and illuminates how China's struggles with food shortages in the early twentieth century unfolded and the ways in which they were affected by the rise of nationalism and the fluctuation of global commerce. Author Seung-joon Lee profiles Canton as an exemplary site of provisioning, a critical gateway for foreign rice importation and distribution through the Pearl River Delta, which found its prized import, and thus its food security, threatened by the rise of Chinese nationalism. Lee argues that the modern Chinese state's attempts to promote domestically-produced "national rice" and to tax rice imported through the transnational trade networks were doomed to failure, as a focus on rice production ignored the influential factor of rice quality. Indeed, China's domestic rice promotion program resulted in an unprecedented famine in Canton in 1936. This book contends that the ways in which the Guomindang government dealt with the issue of food security, and rice in particular, is best understood in the context of its preoccupation with science, technology, and progressivism, a departure from the conventional explanations that cite governmental incompetence.
Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union
Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union write by Felix Wemheuer. This book was released on 2014-06-24. Famine Politics in Maoist China and the Soviet Union available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.
The Land Question
The Land Question - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Land Question write by Henry George. This book was released on 1881. The Land Question available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
