"Government neglect and individual venality, not food shortages, are historically the causes of sustained, widespread hunger."--Dust jacket.

Famine may be triggered by nature but its outcome arises from politics and ideology. In Three Famines, award-winning author Thomas Keneally uncovers the troubli

Examining a series of El Niño-induced droughts and the famines that they spawned around the globe in the last third of the 19th century, Mike Davis discloses t

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappea

"Famine in the Remaking examines the relationship between the reorganization of food systems and large-scale food crises through a comparative historical analys