Humanitarianism in the Modern World : The Moral Economy of Famine Relief

Abstract

Takes a fresh look at the history of famine relief and humanitarianism through a novel moral economy approach, drawing on case studies of the Great Irish Famine in the 1840s, the famine in Soviet Russia in 1921–3, and the famine in Ethiopia in the mid-1980s. This book is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.