Widespread scarcity of food followed by regional malnutrition, starvation, epidemic, and increased mortality
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The Great Irish Famine / prepared for the Economic History Society by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Cormac Ó GrádaDate: [1989]- Pictures
The siege of Leiden in 1574: starving people dying, people killing dogs for food etc. Line engraving.
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Famine : social crisis and historical change / David Arnold.
Arnold, David (David J.), 1946-Date: 1988- Books
The famine in Mayo, 1845-1850 : a portrait from contemporary sources / compiled and edited by Ivor Hamrock.
Date: 1998- Books
Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.
Kathryn Edgerton-TarpleyDate: 2008