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Famines - History

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84 works

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    The Great Irish Famine / prepared for the Economic History Society by Cormac Ó Gráda.

    | Cormac Ó Gráda | Date: [1989]
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    The famine in Mayo, 1845-1850 : a portrait from contemporary sources / compiled and edited by Ivor Hamrock.

    | Date: 1998
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    Tears from iron : cultural responses to famine in nineteenth-century China / Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley ; with a foreword by Cormac Ó Gráda.

    | Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley | Date: 2008
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    Le traité des famines de Magrīzī / traduction française de Gaston Wiet.

    | al-Magrīzī, Aḥmad ibn ʻAli. | Date: 1962
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    Cotton and famine in Behar 1850-1900 / Laxman D. Satya.

    | Satya, Laxman D. | Date: 1997
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History, 19th Century
Ireland
Food Supply
Starvation
India
China
History, 20th Century
Economic history - History
Population - History
Emigration and Immigration

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