Hunger : a modern history /
Rigorously researched, Hunger: A Modern History draws together social, cultural, and political history, to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their histo...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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London, England :
Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2007.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Rigorously researched, Hunger: A Modern History draws together social, cultural, and political history, to show us how we came to have a moral, political, and social responsibility toward the hungry. Vernon forcefully reminds us how many perished from hunger in the empire and reveals how their history was intricately connected with the precarious achievements of the welfare state in Britain, as well as with the development of international institutions committed to the conquest of world hunger. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xii, 369 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-359) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780674044678 0674044673 0674268148 9780674268142 |