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E-grāmata: Economic History of Famine Resilience [Taylor & Francis e-book]

Edited by (Jessica Dijkman is Assistant Professor in economic history at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.), Edited by (Bas van Leeuwen is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands.)
  • Formāts: 290 pages, 13 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sērija : Routledge Explorations in Economic History
  • Izdošanas datums: 26-Sep-2019
  • Izdevniecība: Routledge
  • ISBN-13: 9780429200632
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  • Formāts: 290 pages, 13 Tables, black and white; 2 Line drawings, black and white; 15 Halftones, black and white; 17 Illustrations, black and white
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This volume discusses societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and strategies at the societal level that effectively helped individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply in various parts of the world over the past two millennia.



Food crises have always tested societies. This volume discusses societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and strategies at the societal level that effectively helped individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply, in various parts of the world over the past two millennia.

Societal responses can be coordinated by the state, the market, or civil society. Here it is shown that it was often a combined effort, but that there were significant variations between regions and periods. The long-term, comparative perspective of the volume brings out these variations, explains them, and discusses their effects on societal resilience.

This book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers across economic history, institutional economics, social history and development studies.

List of illustrations
x
List of contributors
xii
Preface xii
1 Resilience to famine ca. 600 BC to present: An introduction
1(1)
Jessica Dijkman
Bas Van Leeuwen
1 Central issue
1(1)
2 Theories and concepts
2(2)
3 Famine resilience in historical research
4(4)
4 Some general patterns
8(7)
PART I Premodern world
15(2)
2 Responses to famines in core regions of antiquity compared
17(1)
Bas Van Leeuwen
Jieli Li
1 Introduction
17(1)
2 The nature of famines in core regions
18(2)
3 Societal resilience
20(7)
4 Concluding comparison
27(6)
3 Political, social and economic determinants of responses to food crises in the early Roman empire
33(1)
Luuk De Ligt
1 Introduction
33(1)
2 Famines and food shortages in the Roman world
34(3)
3 The food supply of the city of Rome
37(2)
4 Intervention by provincial governors
39(1)
5 The role of free trade in resolving urban food crises
40(2)
6 Public institutions and private benefactors
42(3)
7 Benefactors, public grain-buyers and the grain market
45(1)
8 Conclusions
46(6)
4 Coping with famines in Ottoman Anatolia (1650-1850)
52(1)
Semih Celik
1 Introduction
52(1)
2 "There is famine everywhere; no bread to eat" - Bread prices and chronology of famines in Anatolia (1650-1850)
53(3)
3 Crises in detail
56(3)
4 Flight, migration and settlement pattern changes
59(4)
5 Changes in economic activities
63(2)
6 "If you are subjects of the sultan, so are we!" - Politics of famine resilience
65(2)
7 "What do you mean by hunger?" - Politics of famine resilience
67(2)
8 Conclusion
69(5)
5 Inca responses to environmental hazards in the capital region and provinces
74(1)
R. Alan Covey
1 Introduction
74(1)
2 Andean hazards and food supplies
75(6)
3 Inca state interventions in the Cuzco region
81(2)
4 Inca state intervention in provincial regions
83(5)
5 Conclusions
88(5)
6 Feeding the hungry: Poor relief and famine in northwestern Europe, 1500-1700
93(1)
Jessica Dijkman
1 Introduction
93(2)
2 Southeastern England
95(4)
3 Vie northwestern Low Countries
99(3)
4 Northwestern France
102(5)
5 Conclusions
107(1)
PART II Modern world
113(2)
7 Whose famine? Regional differences in vulnerability and resilience during the 1840s potato famine in Beleium
115(1)
Esther Beeckaert
Eric Vanhaute
1 The 1840s potato famine: la misere des Flandres
115(4)
2 Methodology and sources
119(1)
3 Laud use and the impact of the crop failures
120(4)
4 Land holding systems and rural income systems
124(7)
5 Village politics and local poor relief
131(3)
6 Wlwse famine? Explaining the differential vulnerability to a food crisis
134(8)
8 The integration of food markets and increasing government intervention in Indonesia: 1815-1980s
142(1)
Ulbe Bosma
1 Introduction
142(1)
2 Food self sufficiency and colonial cash crop production
143(4)
3 Dysfunctional rice markets and precarity (1850-1900)
147(2)
4 Government intervention under the Ethical Policy (1900-1930)
149(3)
5 The Depression years: Towards Indonesian rice self-sufficiency
152(2)
6 The Republic of Indonesia under Sukarno
154(2)
7 Suharto's central coordination: Bulog
156(1)
8 Conclusion
157(5)
9 Famine, relief and rhetoric of welfare in colonial North India
162(1)
Sanjay Sharma
1 Introduction
162(1)
2 Indigenous charity: Norms and practices
163(5)
3 Colonial famine relief and its characterization of `native* charity
168(2)
4 Regulating almsgiving and beggary: Poorhouses and philanthropy
170(4)
5 The colonial state turns philanthropic: Claims and legacies
174(8)
10 Societal responses to food shortages and famine in Russia and China
182(1)
S. G. Wheatcroft
1 Introduction
182(2)
2 China and Russia in the periods in which they coped well with food problems
184(5)
3 China and Russia in their times of troubles - ongoing critical food crises and famines
189(3)
4 Russia and China in the periods of crash reconstruction, attempts to escape from crisis and denial of famine
192(7)
5 Conclusion
199(4)
11 Preventable famines: Response and coordination failures in twenty-first-century famines
203(1)
Stephen Devereux
1 Introduction
203(1)
2 Ethiopia 1999-2000
204(3)
3 Malawi 2001-2002
207(4)
4 Niger 2005
211(3)
5 Somalia 2011
214(3)
6 Discussion
217(3)
7 Conclusion
220(5)
PART III Long-run perspectives
225(2)
12 Centralized vs. decentralized: Dealing with famines in China and Poland (a long-term analysis)
227(1)
Meimei Wang
Piotr Korys
Maciej Tyminski
1 Introduction
227(2)
2 Societal responses to drops in food supply in China
229(7)
3 Societal responses to drops in food supply in Poland
236(7)
4 Conclusions
243(5)
13 The final straw that broke the camel's back: Famine and migration, a global exploration
248(1)
Leo Lucassen
1 Introduction
248(1)
2 Defining famine and migration
249(3)
3 Acute food crises and migration
252(5)
4 Chronic undernourishment and migration
257(6)
5 Conclusion
263(7)
Index 270
Jessica Dijkman is Assistant Professor in economic history at Utrecht University, the Netherlands.

Bas van Leeuwen is Senior Researcher at the International Institute of Social History, the Netherlands.
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