Title: Famine demography : perspectives from the past and present
Abstract:1. Introduction 2. Famine disease and famine mortality: lessons from the Irish experience, 1845-50 3. The workhouses and Irish famine mortality 4. Famine mortality in nineteenth century Finland: is th...1. Introduction 2. Famine disease and famine mortality: lessons from the Irish experience, 1845-50 3. The workhouses and Irish famine mortality 4. Famine mortality in nineteenth century Finland: is there a sex bias? 5. Famine in Berar, 1896-97 and 1899-1900: echoes and chain reactions 6. Famines and epidemics: an Indian historical perspective 7. Famine yesterday and today in Burundi 8. Famine in nineteenth and twentieth century Russia: mortality by age, cause and gender 9. 'Send us food or coffins': the 1942-42 famine on the Aegean island of Syros 10. The demographic impact of a mild famine in an African city: the case of Antananarivo, 1985-87 11. The frequency of famines as demographic correctives in the Japanese past 12. Famine and the female mortality advantageRead More
Publication Year: 2002
Publication Date: 2002-01-01
Language: en
Type: preprint
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