1st Edition
Famines in European Economic History The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered
Famines in European Economic History: Introduction Section 1: The Great Irish Famine [An Gorta Mór], 1845-1850 1. From the "haggart" to the Hudson: The Irish Famine across many geographical scales 2. Tracing ‘the march of the enemy’: Regional and local experiences of the Irish famine 3. "The Great British Famine of 1845-50"? Ireland, the UK and Peripherality in Famine Relief and Philanthropy Section 2: Finnish Famine, [Suuret Nälkävuodet] 1867-1868 4. Finland’s "Hunger Years" of the 1860s: The Nineteenth Century Context 5. Feeding the Famine: Social Vulnerability and Dislcation During the Finnish Famine of the 1860s 6. ‘The Terrible Visitation’: Famine in Finland and Ireland 1845-68 Section 3: Ukrainian Famine [Holodomor], 1932-1933 7. The origins and course of the famine of 1932–1933 in Soviet Ukraine 8. 1932–33 famine losses in Ukraine within the context of the Soviet Union 9. The uses of hunger: Stalin’s solution of the peasant and national questions in Soviet Ukraine, 1932-1933
Biography
Declan Curran is Lecturer in Development Economics and Industrial Economics at Dublin City University Business School, Ireland.
Lubomyr Luciuk is Professor of Political Geography at the Royal Military College of Canada and Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.
Andrew G. Newby is Senior Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland.
