Three Famines: Ireland, Bengal, and Ethiopia: Starvation and Politics (Hardback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Three Famines Tells the story of three great famines: the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate, the famine in Bengal in 1943, and the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then again under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s.
Full description- Publisher: PublicAffairs,U.S.
- Published: 15 September 2011
- Format: Hardback 336 pages
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- Categories: Social Impact Of Disasters | Famine | Political Science & Theory | British & Irish History | Asian History | African History
- ISBN 13: 9781610390651 ISBN 10: 1610390652
- Sales rank: 249,632
Full description for Three Famines
Through the stories of three devastating famines - Ireland in 1846, Bengal in 1943, and Ethiopia in the 1970s and 1980s - Thomas Kelly shows how famines are the consequence of ideology, politics, social injustice, and governmental actions and inactions. This is the story of three great famines: the great hunger of Ireland, which began in 1846 and whose end-date is a matter of debate, the famine in Bengal in 1943, and the Ethiopian famine, which first sprung up in lethal form in the 1970s under Emperor Haile Selassie and then again under the brutal dictator Mengistu in the 1980s. Keneally himself visited Eritrea in 1984 to see the effects of this grave event. In those who suffered these famines; in those who denied their suffering; in those who propounded theories to excuse it; in those who - against the wishes of each government - told the world what was happening; and, in those who tried to relieve it, there is a remarkable continuity of impulse and experience and dilemma. Though these famines are diverse, they are in many ways as similar as if they were related by DNA, or a malignant force of fallibility. Tom Keneally shares these three shocking histories with his customary penetrating wisdom, and he presents a controversial theory in his utterly compelling narrative: in all three famines, ideology, mindsets of governments, racial preconceptions and administrative incompetence were, ultimately, more lethal than the initiating blights, the loss of potatoes or rice or the grain named teff.
