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Mass starvation : the history and future of famine
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ISBN: 9781509524679 1509524673 9781509524662 1509524665 Year: 2018 Publisher: Cambridge: Polity press,

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"The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all-but-disappeared. Today, famines are resurgent, driven by war, blockade, hostility to humanitarian principles, and a volatile global economy. In Mass Starvation, world-renowned expert on humanitarian crisis and response Alex de Waal, provides an authoritative history of modern famines: their causes, dimensions, and why they ended. He analyzes starvation as a crime, and breaks new ground in examining forced starvation as an instrument of genocide and war. Refuting the enduring but erroneous view that attributes famine to overpopulation and natural disaster, he shows how political decision or political failing is an essential element in every famine, while the spread of democracy and human rights, and the ending of wars, were major factors in the near-ending of this devastating phenomenon. Hard-hitting and deeply informed, Mass Starvation explains why man-made famine and the political decisions that could end it for good must once again become a top priority for the international community"--


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New pandemics, old politics : two hundred years of war on disease and its alternatives
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ISBN: 9781509547791 9781509547807 1509547797 1509547800 1509547819 Year: 2021 Publisher: Medford: Polity press,

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"A brilliant account of the politics behind modern pandemics by a leading expert on humanitarian crisis and infectious disease"--

Famine that kills : Darfur, Sudan, 1984-1985
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ISBN: 0198273495 Year: 1989 Publisher: Oxford [England] New York Clarendon Press Oxford University Press

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Rwanda : death, despair and defiance
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ISBN: 1899477039 9781899477036 Year: 1995 Publisher: London: African rights,

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Who fights? who cares? : war and humanitarian action in Africa
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ISBN: 0865438633 0865438641 9780865438637 9780865438644 Year: 2000 Publisher: Trenton, NJ: Africa world press,

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Young Africa : realising the rights of children and youth
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ISBN: 0865438412 0865438420 Year: 2002 Publisher: Trenton, NJ : Africa World Press,

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Darfur : a new history of a long war
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ISBN: 9781842779507 9781842779491 Year: 2008 Publisher: London ; New York : New York : Zed Books ; Distributed in the USA exclusively by Palgrave Macmillan,

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