The article evaluates recent scholarship on famines in Europe during the medieval and early
modern periods (c. 700–1800), synthesizing the state‐of‐the‐art knowledge and identifying …

The prevalence of obesity in modern societies has two major contributory factors—an
environmental change that has happened in historical times and a genetic predisposition …

The world almost conquered famine. Until the 1980s, this scourge killed ten million people
every decade, but by early 2000s mass starvation had all but disappeared. Today, famines …

What can the great crises of the past teach us about contemporary revolutions? Jack
Goldstone shows the important role of population changes, youth bulges, urbanization, elite …

Famine is preventable. The persistence of famine reflects political failings by African
governments, western donors and international relief agencies. Can Africa avoid famine …

In discussions on European pre-modern economic growth, the role of individual freedom
and of the state has loomed large. This book examines whether different kinds …

Understanding how mortality and fertility are linked is essential to the study of population
dynamics. We investigate the fertility response to an unanticipated mortality shock that …

This book explores the economic, social and political forces that shaped the grain market in
the Roman Empire. Examining studies on food supply and the grain market in pre-industrial …

Twenty years after Poverty and Famines elaborated the entitlement approach as an
innovative and holistic approach to famine analysis, debates about some of its fundamental …

This book presents evidence about historical and contemporary Chinese population
behavior that overturns much of the received wisdom about the differences between China …