Late Victorian Holocausts

Late Victorian Holocausts
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Publisher : Verso Books
Total Pages : 367
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ISBN-10 : 9781781683606
ISBN-13 : 1781683603
Rating : 4/5 (06 Downloads)

Synopsis Late Victorian Holocausts by : Mike Davis

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses the intimate, baleful relationship between imperial arrogance and natural incident that combined to produce some of the worst tragedies in human history. Late Victorian Holocausts focuses on three zones of drought and subsequent famine: India, Northern China; and Northeastern Brazil. All were affected by the same global climatic factors that caused massive crop failures, and all experienced brutal famines that decimated local populations. But the effects of drought were magnified in each case because of singularly destructive policies promulgated by different ruling elites. Davis argues that the seeds of underdevelopment in what later became known as the Third World were sown in this era of High Imperialism, as the price for capitalist modernization was paid in the currency of millions of peasants' lives.

Hungry Bengal

Hungry Bengal
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Publisher : Oxford University Press
Total Pages : 346
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ISBN-10 : 9780190209889
ISBN-13 : 0190209887
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Hungry Bengal by : Janam Mukherjee

Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in colonial Bengal.

Hungry Nation

Hungry Nation
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781108695053
ISBN-13 : 1108695051
Rating : 4/5 (53 Downloads)

Synopsis Hungry Nation by : Benjamin Robert Siegel

This ambitious and engaging new account of independent India's struggle to overcome famine and malnutrition in the twentieth century traces Indian nation-building through the voices of politicians, planners, and citizens. Siegel explains the historical origins of contemporary India's hunger and malnutrition epidemic, showing how food and sustenance moved to the center of nationalist thought in the final years of colonial rule. Independent India's politicians made promises of sustenance and then qualified them by asking citizens to share the burden of feeding a new and hungry state. Foregrounding debates over land, markets, and new technologies, Hungry Nation interrogates how citizens and politicians contested the meanings of nation-building and citizenship through food, and how these contestations receded in the wake of the Green Revolution. Drawing upon meticulous archival research, this is the story of how Indians challenged meanings of welfare and citizenship across class, caste, region, and gender in a new nation-state.

Famines in India

Famines in India
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 410
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015025239917
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (17 Downloads)

Synopsis Famines in India by : B. M. Bhatia

Many Mouths

Many Mouths
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ISBN-10 : 1108705200
ISBN-13 : 9781108705202
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Synopsis Many Mouths by : Nadja Durbach

"In 1968 Magnus Pyke argued that what "human communities choose to eat is only partly dependent on their physiological requirements, and even less on intellectual reasoning and a knowledge of what these physiological requirements are." Pyke, a nutritional scientist who had worked under the Chief Scientific Advisor to Britain's Ministry of Food during the Second World War, illustrated his point by recounting that in preparing the nation for war, military officials had demanded that land be allocated to grow gherkins. They had insisted, Pyke recalled, that the British soldier "could not fight without a proper supply of pickles to eat with his cold meat." The Ministry of War had apparently been "unmoved to learn from the nutritional experts" that pickles offered little of material value to the diet, as they had almost no calories, vitamins, or minerals. The Ministry of Food, Pyke asserted, nevertheless designated precious agricultural land for gherkin cultivation. For what the human body requires, this former government official conceded, often needs to be subordinate to what "the human being to whom the body belongs" desires.1 This pickle episode exemplifies why a book about government feeding must be more than merely a study of the impact of food science on state policy. The nutritional sciences, which began to emerge in the late eighteenth century and made significant advances from the 1840s,2 established that the nutritive and energy potential of food could be measured, calibrated, and deployed. Food science might have been one of the "engine sciences" that Patrick Carroll positions as central to modern state formation, particularly in the British Isles.3 But if science was integral to modern forms of governance, it must nevertheless be understood not as preceding and dictating state action but rather, as Christopher Hamlin has argued, as "a resource parties appeal to (or make up as they go along) for use wherever authority is needed: to authorize themselves to act, to compete for the public's interest and money, to neutralize real or potential critics."4 That there was "a sharp division" between "theoretical knowledge" of nutrition and "its practical implementation"5 was thus often strategic"--

Famines in Colonial India

Famines in Colonial India
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Publisher : Kanishka Publishers
Total Pages : 552
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ISBN-10 : 8173918783
ISBN-13 : 9788173918780
Rating : 4/5 (83 Downloads)

Synopsis Famines in Colonial India by : Brahma Nand

Famine

Famine
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Publisher : Princeton University Press
Total Pages : 352
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ISBN-10 : 0691122377
ISBN-13 : 9780691122373
Rating : 4/5 (77 Downloads)

Synopsis Famine by : Cormac Ó Gráda

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Churchill's Secret War

Churchill's Secret War
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Publisher : Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Total Pages : 371
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ISBN-10 : 9789353050092
ISBN-13 : 935305009X
Rating : 4/5 (92 Downloads)

Synopsis Churchill's Secret War by : Madhusree Mukerjee

Winston Churchill has been venerated as a resolute statesman and one of the great political minds of the last century. But, as Madhusree Mukerjee reveals in this groundbreaking historical investigation, his deep-seated bias against Indians precipitated one of the world's greatest man-made disasters -- the Bengal Famine of 1943 -- resulting in the deaths of over four million Indians. Combining meticulous research with a vivid narrative, Churchill's Secret War places this overlooked tragedy into the larger context of World War II, India's freedom struggle and Churchill's legacy.

Famines in India

Famines in India
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 414
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015006985025
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Rating : 4/5 (25 Downloads)

Synopsis Famines in India by : B. M. Bhatia

Mass Starvation

Mass Starvation
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9781509524709
ISBN-13 : 1509524703
Rating : 4/5 (09 Downloads)

Synopsis Mass Starvation by : Alex de Waal

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.