Faithin Omaha eBook Collection

This book is a focussed treatment of a famine both as an 'event' and a 'process'. It is a close-up of a peasant economy in the throes of a crisis which temporar

This global environmental and political history “will redefine the way we think about the European colonial project” (Observer). “ . . . sets the triumph

"In 1968 Magnus Pyke argued that what "human communities choose to eat is only partly dependent on their physiological requirements, and even less on intellectu

Examines the interconnected events including World War II, India's struggle for independence, and a period of acute scarcity that lead to mass starvation in col