Query: History books about famine,the Qing dynasty, or the French colonial empire
Domain: books
Relevant documents:
The Black Book of Communism
Montcalm and Wolfe
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century
Treason by the Book
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine
A Dying Colonialism
Bloodlands
A People's Tragedy
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China
Mao's Great Famine
The People of New France
The Irish Famine (book)
Mao: The Unknown Story
Churchill's Secret War
Holodomor: The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932–1933)
Intellectual Trends in the Qing Period
Late Victorian Holocausts
Evidence from documents: The Black Book of Communism: '''''The Black Book of Communism: Crimes, Terror, Repression''''' is a 1997 book by Stéphane Courtois, Andrzej Paczkowski, Nicolas Werth, Jean-Louis Margolin, and several other European academics documenting a history of political repression by Communist states, including genocides, extrajudicial executions, deportations, and deaths in labor camps and artificially created famines
Montcalm and Wolfe: '''''Montcalm and Wolfe''''' is the sixth volume in Francis Parkman's seven-volume history, ''France and England in North America'', originally published in 1884. It tells the story of the French and Indian War.
The Great Hunger: Ireland 1845–1849: ''''The Great Hunger''''' is a 1962 book about the Great Famine in Ireland in 1845–1849 by British historian Cecil Woodham-Smith.
The Jesuits in North America in the Seventeenth Century: The book refers often to the writings of French explorer Samuel de Champlain who was the first to explore New France and encounter the Huron people.
Treason by the Book: '''''Treason by the Book''''', by Jonathan Spence, is a historical account of the Zeng Jing (曾靜) case which took place during the reign of the Yongzheng Emperor of Qing China around 1730. Zeng Jing, a failed degree candidate heavily influenced by the seventeenth-century scholar Lü Liuliang, in October 1728 attempted to incite the descendant of Yue Fei, Yue Zhongqi (岳仲琪), Governor-general of Shaanxi-Sichuan, to rebellion. He gave a long list of accusations against Yongzheng, including the murder of the Kangxi Emperor and the killing of his brothers. This triggered a series of investigations which captured the attention of Yongzheng, who was eager to make his ascent to the throne seem legitimate. Highly concerned with the implications of the case, Yongzheng had Zeng Jing brought to Beijing for trial. But instead of imposing an immediate death sentence, the emperor began an intensive, written conversation with Zeng Jing. Zeng Jing eventually wrote a confession of error and received pardon for his crimes. The emperor then decided to circulate the relevant documents, including the original note, nationwide as a civics lesson for his subjects.
Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine: Until the early 1980s, little was known about the famine that caused the deaths of an estimated 15 to 45 million individuals.
A Dying Colonialism: The book details cultural and political changes that emerge due to the rejection of French colonial oppression by the Algerian.
Bloodlands: The chapter covering the early 1930s famine in the Ukraine under the Soviet Union (often termed the Holodomor, a term Snyder avoids) goes into considerable detail.
A People's Tragedy: The book chronicles Russian history from the Russian famine of 1891–1892, the response to which Figes argues to have severely weakened the Russian Empire, to the death of Lenin in 1924, when "the basic elements of the Stalinist regime  the one-party state, the system of terror and the cult of the personality  were all in place".
Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China: '''''Empress Dowager Cixi: The Concubine Who Launched Modern China''''' is a 2013 biography written by Jung Chang, published by Alfred A. Knopf. Chang presents a sympathetic portrait of the Empress Dowager Cixi, who unofficially controlled the Manchu Qing Dynasty in China for 47 years, from 1861 to her death in 1908.
Mao's Great Famine: '''''Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe, 1958–62''''', is a 2010 book by professor and historian Frank Dikötter about the Great Chinese Famine of 1958–1962 in the People's Republic of China under Mao Zedong (1893–1976). Based on four years of research in recently opened Chinese provincial, county, and city archives, Dikötter supports an estimate of at least 45 million premature deaths in China during the famine years. Dikötter characterised the Great Famine thus: "The worst catastrophe in China's history, and one of the worst anywhere."
The People of New France: . Unlike works of history that focus on the political histories of government officials and the clergy, Greer focuses on the day-to-day reality of living in French colonial Canada.
The Irish Famine (book): '''''The Irish Famine''''' is a book written by Diarmaid Ferriter and Colm Tóibín.
Churchill's Secret War: '''''Churchill's Secret War: The British Empire and the Ravaging of India during World War II''''' is a book by Madhusree Mukerjee about the Bengal famine of 1943 during the period of British rule in India.
Holodomor: The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932–1933): '''''Holodomor – The Unknown Ukrainian Tragedy (1932-1933)''''' is a book coordinated by José Eduardo Franco and Beata Cieszynska, published by Grácio Editor in June 2013.


This book "is a pioneer of its kind in Portuguese language and context, bringing to the audience touching pages of history that many would want to erase, and still today, after eighty years, lead to controversial readings. The case of the Great Famine in the Soviet Union, known as Holodomor (meaning "death by hunger") belongs to the most extensive and heinous massacres known by the twentieth century, and it’s still unknown by many. It is an artificially induced famine during the years 1932 and 1933 by the Stalinist regime to the peoples of the Soviet Union as a result of the failure of forced collectivization. The Great Famine affected mainly the countries with large and fertile agricultural land, among which the Ukrainian case stands out, whose country, geographically, is the second largest in Europe and where it is estimated that the number of famine victims reached a dozen million".
Intellectual Trends in the Qing Period: '''''Intellectual Trends in the Qing Period''''' or ''An Overview of Scholarship in Qing'' (), also translated as ''An Outline of Academic Studies in the Qing Dynasty'', ''General Review of Academics in Qing Dynasty'', is a book on the history of scholarship in the Qing dynasty by Liang Qichao that was started in 1902 and published in 1920.
Late Victorian Holocausts: ''''Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World''''' is a book by Mike Davis about the connection between political economy and global climate patterns, particularly El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO).