A Cultural History of Famine: Food Security and the Environment in India and Britain

ISBN-13: 9780367662851 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 228 str.

Ayesha Mukherjee

Opis

This book brings together perspectives on food security and related environmental concerns from experts in the disciplines of literary studies, history, science, and social sciences.

Spis treści

Introduction: A Cultural History of Famine Ayesha Mukherjee  1. Famine and Food Security in Early Modern England: Popular Agency and the Politics of Dearth John Walter  2. Subsistence Crises and Economic history: A Study of Eighteenth Century Bengal Rajat Datta  3. Climate Signals, Environment, and Livelihoods in the Long Seventeenth Century in India Vinita Damodaran, James Hamilton, and Rob Allan  4. Famine Chorography: Peter Mundy and the Gujarat famine, 1630-32 Ayesha Mukherjee  5. Rivers, Inundations, and Grain Scarcity in Early Colonial Bengal Ujjayan Bhattacharya  6. Chaotic Interruptions in the Economy: Droughts, Hurricanes and Monsoons in Harriet Martineau’s Illustrations of Political Economy Lesa Scholl  7. Poorhouses and Gratuitous Famine Relief in Colonial North India Sanjay Sharma  8. Farming Tales: Narratives of Farming and Food Security in Mid-twentieth Century Britain Michael Winter  9. The Economy of Hunger: Representing the Bengal Famine of 1943 Amlan Das Gupta  10. Are We Performing Dearth or Is Dearth Performing Us, in Modern Productions of William Shakespeare’s Coriolanus? Julie Hudson

O autorze

Ayesha Mukherjee is a Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at the University of Exeter, UK.