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

Contributor(s): Mukherjee, Ayesha [editor.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Routledge environmental humanitiesPublisher: Abingdon, Oxon ; Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2019Description: x, 227 pages 25 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781138230927 (hardback)Subject(s): Famines -- Social aspects -- India -- History | Famines -- Social aspects -- Great Britain -- History | Humanities -- Social aspects -- India | Humanities -- Social aspects -- Great BritainDDC classification: 363.90954 LOC classification: HC439 | .C87 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

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