This paper attempts to understand how the interaction of natural disasters and human behaviour during wartime led to famines in three regions under imperial control around the Indian Ocean. The socio-economic structure of these regions had been increasingly differentiated over the period of...

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Map of China in 1959 -- Introduction -- 1 The Tragedy of Collectivization -- 2 Endless Campaigns and Political Pressures -- 3 Unnatural Disasters -- 4 Starvation and Death -- 5 Orphans of the Famine -- 6 Famine in the Cities -- 7 Surviving the Famine -- 8...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1 Hunger and the Making of the Modern World -- 2 The Humanitarian Discovery of Hunger -- 3 Hunger as Political Critique -- 4 The Science and Calculation of Hunger -- 5 Hungry England and Planning for a World of Plenty -- 6 Collective Feeding and the Welfare of...