Explaining Famine in the British Empire
John Lidwell-Durnin
Gebundenes Buch

Explaining Famine in the British Empire

Agricultural Science, Food Security, and the Rise of Statistics

Versandkostenfrei!
Erscheint vorauss. 12. Mai 2026
78,99 €
inkl. MwSt.
PAYBACK Punkte
39 °P sammeln!
Famine is humanity's oldest fear. Famine memorials and stories are literally carved into the stones that lie on the beds of Europe's rivers. Our science fiction and fantasy literature often begin by evoking a world of hunger and scarcity. Famine shapes our past, it threatens our future, and we struggle to explain how it is tolerated and permitted to unfold in the present. In eighteenth-century Britain, rising food prices provoked a politics of hunger, manifested in food riots, fears of revolution, and political arguments over how to feed a growing population. In the 1790s, fear of famine provo...