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Scarcity in the modern world [electronic resource] : history, politics, society and sustainability, 1800-2075 / Edited by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson, John Brewer, Neil Fromer, and Frank Trentmann

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London ; New York : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2019.
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1 online resource
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Brewer, John, Fromer, Neil Alan, Jonsson, Fredrik Albritton, 1972-, and Trentmann, Frank
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Contents
Making 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.
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9781350040922 (ePUB)
97813500409399 (ePDF)
9781350040915 (hardback)
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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