Table of Contents

Editor's Preface Foreword Introduction 1. Definitions and Dimensions 2. Theories of Famine Causation 3. Famine in Peasant Societies 4. Famine's "Victims" 5. Subsistence and the State 6. From Opulence to Oxfam Notes on Further Reading Index.

About the Author

David Arnold is Professor of History of South Asia, University of London.