Famine demography : perspectives from the past and present / edited by Tim Dyson, Cormac Ó Gráda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Dyson, Tim.

Ó Gráda, Cormac.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Famines--History--Congresses.

Famines.

Mortality--History--Congresses.

Mortality.

History.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Oxford [England] ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.

Summary:

This book deals with the important subject of famine demography. It describes case studies of the demography of historical and more recent famines in locations as far apart as Ireland, Finland, India, Burundi, Russia, Greece, Madagascar, and Japan. The authors concern themselves with significant issues such as the role of famines in controlling population growth in the past, the nature of interactions between starvation and epidemic diseases during times of famine, and the detailed demographic consequences of famines. In the latter category issues such as the age and cause-specific profiles of excess famine mortality receive particular attention. This is the only comparative volume of its kind. It is wide-ranging in time and place, but at the same time focuses sharply on a particular subject. Consequently its contents provide a unique understanding of famine demography.

Notes:

Papers originally presented at a conference held at Les Treilles in May 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0199251916

OCLC:

48074206