Mass Starvation - 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 Mass Starvation write by Alex de Waal. This book was released on 2017-12-08. Mass Starvation available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions and why they ended. He analyses starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community.
Famine in the Remaking
Famine in the Remaking - 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 in the Remaking write by Stian Rice. This book was released on 2020. Famine in the Remaking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "Famine in the Remaking examines the relationship between the reorganization of food systems and large-scale food crises through a comparative historical analysis of three famines: Hawaii in the 1820s, Madagascar in the 1920s, and Cambodia in the 1970s. This examination identifies the structural transformations that make food systems more vulnerable to failure"--
Famine Crimes
Famine Crimes - 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 Crimes write by Alexander De Waal. This book was released on 1997. Famine Crimes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Who is responsible for the failures? African generals and politicians are the prime culprits for creating famines in Sudan, Somalia and Zaire, but western donors abet their authoritarianism, partly through imposing structural adjustment programmes.
Famine
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 Famine write by Cormac Ó Gráda. This book was released on 2009. Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. History.
Mao's Great Famine
Mao's Great 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 Mao's Great Famine write by Frank Dikötter. This book was released on 2010-10-01. Mao's Great Famine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize An unprecedented, groundbreaking history of China's Great Famine that recasts the era of Mao Zedong and the history of the People's Republic of China. "Between 1958 and 1962, China descended into hell. Mao Zedong threw his country into a frenzy with the Great Leap Forward, an attempt to catch up to and overtake Britain in less than 15 years The experiment ended in the greatest catastrophe the country had ever known, destroying tens of millions of lives." So opens Frank Dikötter's riveting, magnificently detailed chronicle of an era in Chinese history much speculated about but never before fully documented because access to Communist Party archives has long been restricted to all but the most trusted historians. A new archive law has opened up thousands of central and provincial documents that "fundamentally change the way one can study the Maoist era." Dikötter makes clear, as nobody has before, that far from being the program that would lift the country among the world's superpowers and prove the power of Communism, as Mao imagined, the Great Leap Forward transformed the country in the other direction. It became the site not only of "one of the most deadly mass killings of human history,"--at least 45 million people were worked, starved, or beaten to death--but also of "the greatest demolition of real estate in human history," as up to one-third of all housing was turned into rubble). The experiment was a catastrophe for the natural world as well, as the land was savaged in the maniacal pursuit of steel and other industrial accomplishments. In a powerful mesghing of exhaustive research in Chinese archives and narrative drive, Dikötter for the first time links up what happened in the corridors of power-the vicious backstabbing and bullying tactics that took place among party leaders-with the everyday experiences of ordinary people, giving voice to the dead and disenfranchised. His magisterial account recasts the history of the People's Republic of China.
