Hunger in history
Subtitle: food shortage, poverty, and deprivation
By: general editor, Lucile F. Newman ; associate editors William Crossgrove ... [et al.].
Contributors: Newman, Lucile F.; Crossgrove, William C.
Publisher: B. Blackwell
Published: 1990
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass., USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
Subjects: Famines -- History.; Food supply -- History.; Poverty -- History.
Description: Organized by time periods, this book addresses hunger first in the earliest ages of human habitation, then in the classical periods of Sumer, the Indus valley, Athens, and Rome millennia ago, later in the developing world economy of the past centuries, and finally in the ermerging global food system of the recent past. In examing the past, Hunger in History employs a conceptual framework of hunger, viewing food shortage in regions, food poverty in households, and food deprivation in individuals.-jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographies and index.