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Famine Demography: Perspectives from the Past and Present

Famine Demography: Perspectives from the Past and Present

Dyson, Tim

Hardcover

Series: International Studies in Demography

LinguisticsGeneral SociologyGeneral World History

ISBN10: 0199251916
ISBN13: 9780199251919
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jun 27 2002
Pages: 280
Weight: 1.25
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
This book deals with the important subject of famine demography. It describes case studies of the demography of historical and more recent famines in locations as far apart as Ireland, Finland, India, Burundi, Russia, Greece, Madagascar, and Japan. The authors concern themselves with significant issues such as the role of famines in controlling population growth in the past, the nature of interactions between starvation and epidemic diseases during times of famine, and the detailed demographic consequences of famines. In the latter category issues such as the age and cause-specific profiles of excess famine mortality receive particular attention. This is the only comparative volume of its kind. It is wide-ranging in time and place, but at the same time focuses sharply on a particular subject. Consequently its contents provide a unique understanding of famine demography.

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