HIST 302 Famine in Modern Society -- Professor Cope: Workshop, October 13

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Calamity and Reform in China: State, Rural Society... by Dali L. Yang

End of Hidden Ireland: Rebellion, Famine, and Emigration, by Robert James Scally

Famine and Fashion: Needlewomen in the Nineteenth Century, edited by Beth Harris

Famine, Disease, and the Social Order in Early Modern Society, edited by John Walter  and Roger Schofield

Famine Ships: The Irish Exodus to America, by Edward Laxton 

Great Famine: Northern Europe in the Early Fourteenth Century, by William Chester Jordan

Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine, by Robert Conquest 

Herbert Hoover and Famine Relief to Soviet Russia, 1921-1923, by Benjamin M. Weissman

Hunger by Design: The Great Ukrainian Famine and its Soviet Context, edited by Halyna Hryn

Late Victorian Holocausts: El Niño Famines and the Making of the Third World, by Mike Davis

Marching Through Suffering: Loss and Survival in North Korea, by Sandra Fahy

Markets and Famines, by Martin Ravallion

Mao's Great Famine: The History of China's Most ... by Frank Dikötter

Red Tears: War, Famine, and Revolution in Ethiopia, by Dawit Wolde Giorgis

Resettlement and Famine in Ethiopia: The Villagers' Experience, by Alula Pankhurst

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