Francos Famine

Author : Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350174653
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Franco's Famine written by Miguel Ángel del Arco Blanco and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-09-09 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At least 200,000 people died from hunger or malnutrition-related diseases in Spain during the 1940s. This book provides a political explanation for the famine and brings together a broad range of academics based in Spain, the United Kingdom, the United States and Australia to achieve this. Topics include the political causes of the famine, the physical and social consequences, the ways Spaniards tried to survive, the regime's reluctance to accept international relief, the politics of cooking at a time of famine, and the memory of the famine. The volume challenges the silence and misrepresentation that still surround the famine. It reveals the reality of how people perished in Spain because the Francoist authorities instituted a policy of food self-sufficiency (or autarky): a system of price regulation which placed restrictions on transport as well as food sales. The contributors trace the massive decline in food production which followed, the hoarding which took place on an enormous scale and the vast and deeply iniquitous black market that subsequently flourished at a time when salaries plunged to 50% below their levels in 1936: all contributing factors in the large-scale atrocity explored fully here for the first time.

Author : Christine Kinealy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315513633
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.38/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Irish Famine written by Christine Kinealy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government’s culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852. This volume breaks new ground in bringing together foundational narratives of one of Europe and North America’s first refugee crises — making visible their impact in shaping perceptions, public opinion, and patterns of memorialization of Irish forced migration. It documents eyewitness impressions of suffering Irish emigrants, and especially orphaned infants, which became iconic images of the Famine migration.

Author : Linus Pierpont Brockett
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.5T/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Year of Battles: Or The Franco-German War of 1870-'71 written by Linus Pierpont Brockett and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Jason King
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1315513676
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Irish Famine written by Jason King and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-09-20 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Great Irish Famine remains one of the most lethal famines in modern world history and a watershed moment in the development of modern Ireland – socially, politically, demographically and culturally. In the space of only four years, Ireland lost twenty-five per cent of its population as a consequence of starvation, disease and large-scale emigration. Certain aspects of the Famine remain contested and controversial, for example the issue of the British government’s culpability, proselytism, and the reception of emigrants. However, recent historiographical focus on this famine has overshadowed the impact of other periods of subsistence crisis, both before 1845 and after 1852. This volume breaks new ground in bringing together foundational narratives of one of Europe and North America’s first refugee crises — making visible their impact in shaping perceptions, public opinion, and patterns of memorialization of Irish forced migration. It documents eyewitness impressions of suffering Irish emigrants, and raises questions about what literary conventions, mnemonic motifs, and popular images can be found in eyewitness accounts, press coverage, and foundational narratives of Famine Irish forced migration. These primary sources provide a model for understanding how representations of forced migration shape public opinion and policy.

Author : William Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.85/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of the Franco-German War of 1870 written by William Jones and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : William Rosen
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0698163494
Total Pages : 405 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Third Horseman written by William Rosen and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-05-15 with total page 405 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The incredible true story of how a cycle of rain, cold, disease, and warfare created the worst famine in European history—years before the Black Death, from the author of Justinian's Flea and the forthcoming Miracle Cure In May 1315, it started to rain. For the seven disastrous years that followed, Europeans would be visited by a series of curses unseen since the third book of Exodus: floods, ice, failures of crops and cattle, and epidemics not just of disease, but of pike, sword, and spear. All told, six million lives—one-eighth of Europe’s total population—would be lost. With a category-defying knowledge of science and history, William Rosen tells the stunning story of the oft-overlooked Great Famine with wit and drama and demonstrates what it all means for today’s discussions of climate change.

Author : Henry Montague Hozier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 526 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Franco-Prussian War written by Henry Montague Hozier and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry M. Hozier
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 684 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Franco-Prussian War written by Henry M. Hozier and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 684 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Elihu Rich
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Germany and France, a popular history of the Franco-German war written by Elihu Rich and published by . This book was released on 1870 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Shephard Thomas Taylor
Publisher : London : [s.n.]
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Reminiscences of Berlin During the Franco-German War of 1870-71 written by Shephard Thomas Taylor and published by London : [s.n.]. This book was released on 1885 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: