Humanitarianism in the Modern World: The Moral Economy of Famine Relief

by Georgina Brewis, Norbert Gotz, Steffen Werther, et al.

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This is an innovative new history of famine relief and humanitarianism. The authors apply a moral economy approach to shed new light on the forces and ideas that motivated and shaped humanitarian aid during the Great Irish Famine, the famine of 1921-1922 in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine, and the 1980s Ethiopian famine. They place these episodes within a distinctive periodisation of humanitarianism which emphasises the correlations with politico-economic...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:1108493521

ISBN13:9781108493529

Release Date:July 2020

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Length:320 Pages

Weight:1.46 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"

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History Social Science Social Sciences

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