TY - BOOK ID - 52449584 TI - An economic history of famine resilience AU - Dijkman, Jessica AU - van Leeuwen, Bas PY - 2020 SN - 9780429577581 0429577583 9780429200632 0429200633 9780429575471 0429575475 9780429573361 0429573367 0367191288 9780367191283 PB - London Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group DB - UniCat KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economics / General. KW - BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General. KW - Famines KW - Economic aspects. KW - World history KW - Famine KW - Food supply KW - Starvation UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:52449584 AB - Food crises have always tested societies. This volume discusses societal resilience to food crises, examining the responses and strategies at the societal level that effectively helped individuals and groups to cope with drops in food supply, in various parts of the world over the past two millennia. Societal responses can be coordinated by the state, the market, or civil society. Here it is shown that it was often a combined effort, but that there were significant variations between regions and periods. The long-term, comparative perspective of the volume brings out these variations, explains them, and discusses their effects on societal resilience. This book will be of interest to advanced students and researchers across economic history, institutional economics, social history and development studies. ER -