Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future / / Cormac Ó Gráda.
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 Ó Gráda, one of the world's leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in...
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