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020 _a9781350040915 (hardback)
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_bQ9
245 0 0 _aScarcity in the modern world :
_bhistory, politics, society and sustainability, 1800-2075 /
_cEdited by John Brewer, Neil Fromer, Fredrik Albritton Jonsson & Frank Trentmann.
260 _aLondon :
_bBloomsbury Academic,
_c2019.
300 _ax, 294 p. ;
_c23 cm.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 _aMaking scarcity -- Jean-Laurent Rosenthal: scarcity, language and politics -- Lyla Metha and Amber Huff: untangling scarcity -- Rick Wilk: rethinking the relationships between scarcity, poverty and hunger: an anthropological perspective -- Neil Fromer: renewable energy: a story of abundance and scarcity: a scientific -- Perspective -- The power of projection -- Fredrik Albritton Jonsson: growth in the anthropocene -- Dave Rutledge: the great resources myth -- Jirg Friedrichs: escapology, or how to escape Malthusian traps -- Coping, managing, innovating at different scales -- Hugh Rockoff: U.S. mobilization in World War II as a model for coping -- With climate change -- Walker Hanlon: scarcity and innovation: lessons from the British economy during the U.S. Civil War -- Sigrid Schmalzer: China's great leap famine: Malthus, Marx, Mao, and material scarcity -- Heather Chappells: encounters with scarcity at a micro-scale: householders responses to drought as a continuum of "normal" practice -- Dynamics of distribution -- Elizabeth Chatterjee: a climate of scarcity: electricity in India, 1899-2016 -- David Lamoureux: Lagos "scarce-city": investigating the roots of urban modernity in a colonial capital, 1900-1928 -- Hiroki Shin and Frank Trentmann: energy shortages and the politics of time: resilience, redistribution and "normality" in Japan and East Germany, 1940s-70s -- Emma Stephens: food shortages: the role and limitations of markets in resolving food crises during the 2012 famine in the Sahel.
650 0 _aScarcity.
650 0 _aSupply and demand
_xHistory.
650 0 _aEconomics
_xSociolotical aspects.
700 1 _aBrewer, John,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aFromer, Neil Alan,
_eeditor.
700 1 _aJonsson, Fredrik Albritton,
_d1972-
_eeditor.
700 1 _aTrentmann, Frank,
_eeditor.
776 0 8 _iOnline version:
_tScarcity in the modern world
_dLondon ; New York, NY : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019
_z9781350040922
901 _a187613
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_cBK