Three Famines

SOFTBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK.* Edition: 1st. Thus.* Impression: 1st. Fnl.* Date of Publication: 2011* Publisher: Public Affairs.* Binding and cover condition: Text-illustrated. Mono photo-illustrated soft card covers. No bumps or rubs. No shelf wear to edges or corners. No creases to spine or hinge. Seems un-used. FINE ~ AS NEW.* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight & bright. No annotations, inscriptions or marks to text, no tanning or other visible faults. No colouration to page margins or edges. FINE ~ AS NEW.* Illustrations: None.* Pages: 302 pp. text. xxii pp. bibliography, index & ads at rear.* Product Description:- Through the lens of three of the most devastating food crises in modern history--the Gorta Mor of British-ruled Ireland, the great famine of British-ruled Bengal in 1943, and the string of famines that plagued Ethiopia during the 1970s and 1980s, Booker Prize-winning author Thomas Keneally vividly evokes the terrible cost of mass starvation at the level of the individual who starves and the nation that watches. Famine is widely misunderstood as a completely natural catastrophe. Keneally recounts that while the triggers ~ crop, pestilence, and drought ~ are natural, the political and ideological choices that prolong famine are man-made. Government neglect and individual venality, not food shortages, are historically the causes of sustained, widespread hunger.* This is a FINE, AS NEW copy of the 1st./1st. FNL. with no visible faults.*