Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future

by Cormac O Grada and Cormac Ó Gráda

Book Overview

New perspectives on the history of famine--and the possibility of a famine-free world

Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the arguments that Cormac Gr da, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in this wide-ranging book, which provides crucial new perspectives...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691165351
• ISBN13: 9780691165356
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 10.0"