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Empire, Colonialism, and Famine in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Edited by Bohdan Klid
The essays in this volume examine the often-overlooked connection between empire building, imperial rule, and mass starvation. While droughts and other natural disasters can lead to serious food shortages, a decline in food availability need not result in wide-scale starvation. Mass starvation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has almost always been linked to political decisions about food distribution. Some of the worst cases occurred within empires or their colonies. Topics addressed include famines in Soviet-ruled Ukraine, British-ruled Ireland and India, and the People’s Republic of China, as well as famine and food policies during World War II connected to Nazi German and Romanian empire-building in occupied Ukraine and Moldova. The introductory essay provides an overview of recent literature on famine theory and other studies addressing the connection between empires, empire-building, and famines. As a group, the writers show the value of comparative study of wartime famines in occupied territories in the context of empire building, and of famines linked to imperial or colonial rule in overseas colonies or peripheral regions.
Book details
Publication date: September 2022Features: Index
Keywords: Colonialism; Empire-building; Famine; Holodomor; British Empire; China; Soviet Union; Stalinism; Genocide
Subject(s): HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, History, History, History / Ukrainian History, Area Studies, Area Studies / Ukrainian Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Colonialism and imperialism, History: plagues, diseases etc, Colonialism; Empire-building; Famine; Holodomor; British Empire; China; Soviet Union; Stalinism; Genocide, History / Colonialism / Genocide, Ukrainian
Publisher(s): CIUS Press
Book details
Publication date: September 2022Features: Index
Keywords: Colonialism; Empire-building; Famine; Holodomor; British Empire; China; Soviet Union; Stalinism; Genocide
Subject(s): HISTORY / Modern / 19th Century, History, History, History / Ukrainian History, Area Studies, Area Studies / Ukrainian Studies, HISTORY / Modern / 20th Century / General, HISTORY / Europe / Eastern, Colonialism and imperialism, History: plagues, diseases etc, Colonialism; Empire-building; Famine; Holodomor; British Empire; China; Soviet Union; Stalinism; Genocide, History / Colonialism / Genocide, Ukrainian
Publisher(s): CIUS Press
Bohdan Klid. Bohdan Klid is a historian of Ukraine and specialist on the Great Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–33. He is associated with the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
Introduction: Empire-Building, Imperial Policies, and Famine in Occupied Territories and Colonies / Bohdan Klid
1 Famine As an Instrument of Nazi Occupation Policy in Ukraine, 1941-44 / Oleksandr Lysenko, Tetiana Zabolotna, Oleksandr Maievs'kyi (trans. Mark Baker)
Dying Hungry: Nazi Ideology and the Pragmatism behind Starvation in Implementing the Final Solution / Kiril Feferman
Food Supply, Starvation, and Food As a Weapon in the Camps and Ghettos of Romanian-Occupied Bessarabia and Transnistria, 1941-44 / Paul A. Shapiro
Hunger Habitus: State, Society, and Starvation in Twentieth-Century Bengal / Janam Mukherjee
Stalin’s Faminogenic Policies in Ukraine: The Imperial Discourse / Liudmyla Hrynevych; Andrew Sorokowski (trans.)
Internal Colonialism, Alien Rule, and Famine in Ireland and Ukraine / Michael Hechter
Was the Great Irish Famine a Colonial Famine? / Peter Gray
The 1958-62 Chinese Famine and Its Impact on Ethnic Minorities / Lucien Bianco
Raphaël Lemkin, Genocide, Colonialism, Famine, and Ukraine / Douglas Irvin-Erickson
Index
Bohdan Klid. Bohdan Klid is a historian of Ukraine and specialist on the Great Ukrainian Famine-Genocide of 1932–33. He is associated with the Holodomor Research and Education Consortium at the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, University of Alberta.
Introduction: Empire-Building, Imperial Policies, and Famine in Occupied Territories and Colonies / Bohdan Klid
1 Famine As an Instrument of Nazi Occupation Policy in Ukraine, 1941-44 / Oleksandr Lysenko, Tetiana Zabolotna, Oleksandr Maievs'kyi (trans. Mark Baker)
Dying Hungry: Nazi Ideology and the Pragmatism behind Starvation in Implementing the Final Solution / Kiril Feferman
Food Supply, Starvation, and Food As a Weapon in the Camps and Ghettos of Romanian-Occupied Bessarabia and Transnistria, 1941-44 / Paul A. Shapiro
Hunger Habitus: State, Society, and Starvation in Twentieth-Century Bengal / Janam Mukherjee
Stalin’s Faminogenic Policies in Ukraine: The Imperial Discourse / Liudmyla Hrynevych; Andrew Sorokowski (trans.)
Internal Colonialism, Alien Rule, and Famine in Ireland and Ukraine / Michael Hechter
Was the Great Irish Famine a Colonial Famine? / Peter Gray
The 1958-62 Chinese Famine and Its Impact on Ethnic Minorities / Lucien Bianco
Raphaël Lemkin, Genocide, Colonialism, Famine, and Ukraine / Douglas Irvin-Erickson
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