In famine history there are many unmarked burial sites of which Dr ... and pouring over the few remaining records and minutes books as well as the newspapers of the day he pieced together a picture ...

Setting aside the inevitable comparisons to Thomas Malthus, whose predictions about famine proved to be vastly overstated, Cribb’s book, without a doubt, is alarmist. The message he hammers home: “The ...

John Kelly’s The Graves are Walking: The History of the Great Irish Famine reflects this school of thought. But Coogan takes the argument a step further and argues that British policy, as carried out ...

Madhusree Mukerjee won a Guggenheim fellowship to write her previous book, The Land of Naked People ... an eastern province of India where famine was raging, were of little value to the war ...

William Lambers is an author and historian who partnered with the World Food Programme on the book ... history that reaches much farther back. Ninety years ago an appeal for help came from famine ...