A Cultural History of Famine (eBook, PDF)

Food Security and the Environment in India and Britain
Redaktion: Mukherjee, Ayesha

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book brings together perspectives on food security and related environmental concerns from experts in the disciplines of literary studies, history, science, and social sciences.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315316512
• Artikelnr.: 55042060

Autorenporträt

Ayesha Mukherjee is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Exeter, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: A Cultural History of Famine Ayesha Mukherjee 1. Famine and
Food Security in Early Modern England: Popular Agency and the Politics of
Dearth John Walter 2. Subsistence Crises and Economic history: A Study of
Eighteenth Century Bengal Rajat Datta 3. Climate Signals, Environment, and
Livelihoods in the Long Seventeenth Century in India Vinita Damodaran,
James Hamilton, and Rob Allan 4. Famine Chorography: Peter Mundy and the
Gujarat famine, 1630-32 Ayesha Mukherjee 5. Rivers, Inundations, and Grain
Scarcity in Early Colonial Bengal Ujjayan Bhattacharya 6. Chaotic
Interruptions in the Economy: Droughts, Hurricanes and Monsoons in Harriet
Martineau's Illustrations of Political Economy Lesa Scholl 7. Poorhouses
and Gratuitous Famine Relief in Colonial North India Sanjay Sharma 8.
Farming Tales: Narratives of Farming and Food Security in Mid-twentieth
Century Britain Michael Winter 9. The Economy of Hunger: Representing the
Bengal Famine of 1943 Amlan Das Gupta 10. Are We Performing Dearth or Is
Dearth Performing Us, in Modern Productions of William Shakespeare's
Coriolanus? Julie Hudson