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Three famines / Tom Keneally.
- Title
- Three famines / Tom Keneally.
- Author
- Keneally, Thomas
- Publication
- North Sydney, N.S.W. : Random House Australia, 2010.
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- Description
- 324 p.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- In a world of cyclical historic and modern famine, this account is a comparative story of three great famines. The first of these famines is An Gorta M r, the great hunger of Ireland, the famine that began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate amongst historians. In the Irish, Bengali and Ethopian famines, ideology, mindsets of governments, racial preconceptions and administrative incompetence were more lethal than the initiating blight, the loss of potatoes or rice or the grain named teff.
- Subject
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Democracy and starvation -- Short commons -- Nature's triggers -- Coping -- Villains: Ireland -- Villains and heros: Bengal -- Villains: Ethopia -- Whistle blowers -- Famine diseases -- Evictions, movements and emigration in Bengal and Ireland -- Evictions and movements, Mengistu-style -- Resistance -- Relief: Ireland Bengal and Ethiopia -- Other catastropes.
- ISBN
- 9781741668551 (hbk)
- 1741668557 (hbk)
- OCLC
- 645791585
- SCSB-12389698
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library