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Hunger and history : the impact of changing food production and consumption patterns on society / edited by Robert I. Rotberg and Theodore K. Rabb ; contributors, Ester Boserup [and others].

Series

Published

Cambridge [Cambridgeshire] ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1985, ©1983

Physical description

336 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

ISBN

0521304385
9780521304382
0521315050
9780521315050

Notes

Originally published as The Journal of interdisciplinary history, v. XIV, no. 2, Autumn 1983.
Includes bibliographical references.
Originally published as The journal of interdisciplinary history, v.14, no.2.

Contents

Nutrition and history / Robert I. Rotberg -- Nutrition, mortality, and population size : Malthus's Court of Last Resort / Susan C. Watkins & Etienne van de Walle -- Food, infection, and population / Thomas McKeown -- Infection, hidden hunger, and history / Ann G. Carmichael -- The impact of scarcity and plenty on population change in England, 1541-1871 / Roger Schofield -- The nutrition-mortality link in past times : a comment / Massimo Livi-Bacci -- The horticultural revolution : a cautionary note on prices / Joan Thirsk -- Social conflict and the grain supply in eighteenth-century France / Olwen Hufton -- Food entitlement, famine, and conflict / Louise A. Tilly -- Famines, epidemics, and population growth : the case of India / Michelle B. McAlpin -- Better nutrition and India : a comment / Santhebachahalli G. Srikantia -- Nutrition in African history / Philip D. Curtin -- The impact of scarcity and plenty on development / Ester Boserup -- Functional consequences of malnutrition for human populations : a comment / Nevin S. Scrimshaw -- The effects of population on nutrition and economic well-being / Julian L. Simon -- Economics and population growth : a comment / Roderick C. Floud -- Secular changes in America and British stature and nutrition / Robert W. Fogel [and others] -- Synergy among mass infections, famines, and poverty / Carl E. Taylor -- The relationship of nutrition, disease, and social conditions : a graphical presentation / The Conferees -- Diet and delocalizatio : dietary changes since 1750 / Gretel H. Pelto & Pertti J. Pelto -- The value of contemporary food and nutrition studies for historians / Nevin S. Scrimshaw.

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