A cultural history of famine : food security and the environment in India and Britain / edited by Ayesha Mukherjee.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mukherjee, Ayesha, editor.

Series:

Routledge environmental humanities

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Famines--Social aspects--India--History.

Famines.

Famines--Social aspects--Great Britain--History.

Humanities--Social aspects--India.

Humanities.

Humanities--Social aspects--Great Britain.

Famines--Social aspects.

Humanities--Social aspects.

History.

Great Britain.

India.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

x, 227 pages ; 25 cm.

Place of Publication:

Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Contents:

Introduction : a cultural history of famine / Ayesha Mukherjee

Famine and food security in early modern England : popular agency and the politics of dearth / John Walter

Subsistence crises and economic history : a study of eighteenth century Bengal / Rajat Datta

Climate signals, environment, and livelihoods in the long seventeenth century in India / Vinita Damodaran, James Hamilton, and Rob Allan

Famine chorography : Peter Mundy and the Gujarat famine, 1630-32 / Ayesha Mukherjee

Rivers, inundations, and grain scarcity in early colonial Bengal / Ujjayan Bhattacharya

Chaotic interruptions in the economy : droughts, hurricanes and monsoons in Harriet Martineau's illustrations of political economy / Lesa Scholl

Poorhouses and gratuitous famine relief in colonial North India / Sanjay Sharma

Farming tales : narratives of farming and food security in mid-twentieth century Britain / Michael Winter

The economy of hunger : representing the Bengal famine of 1943 / Amlan Das Gupta

Are we performing dearth or is dearth performing us, in modern productions of William Shakespeare's Coriolanus? / Julie Hudson.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Online version: Cultural history of famine

ISBN:

9781138230927

1138230928

OCLC:

1076409008