Famines in European Economic History - The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered (Hardcover, New)

This volume re-evaluates economic and geographical aspects of famine in European history, though a comparative study of the Irish Famine 1845-1848, the Finnish Famine (1868) and the Ukraine Famine (Holodomor) of 1932-33.

In each case, the book explores:

1. An empirical overview of the pre-and post-famine economic, social, and demographic factors at a national scale.
2. A spatial analysis of regional disparities (e.g. urban/rural) in how the famine catastrophe unfolded in each country and the subsequent long run development of the famine-struck regions, in terms of population dynamics, literacy and education, and economic development.
3. A political geography discussion of how the peripheral location and/or peripheral political status of each country played a role in shaping the government s response, as well as its role in exacerbating the immediate famine and its aftermath.

This contributed volume posits that the peripheral political and geographical status of a nation can manifest itself in both exacerbating the immediate famine shock and shaping a given nation s post-famine development. The volume advocates that the impact and long term consequences of famine for a nation should be understood not in isolation, but in the context a nation s relations with neighbouring states. Furthermore, regional structures within a given nation can lead to an unevenness in both the severity of the immediate famine crisis and the post-famine recovery. "

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