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

by Georgina Brewis, Norbert Gotz, Steffen Werther, et al.

This is an innovative new history of famine relief and humanitarianism. The authors apply a moral economy approach to shed new light on the forces and ideas that motivated and shaped humanitarian aid during the Great Irish Famine, the famine of 1921-1922 in Soviet Russia and the Ukraine, and the 1980s Ethiopian famine. They place these episodes within a distinctive periodisation of humanitarianism which emphasises the correlations with politico-economic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1108493521
• ISBN13: 9781108493529
• Release Date: July 2020
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"