Famines in European Economic History: The Last Great European Famines Reconsidered - Paperback

by Declan Curran (Editor), Lubomyr Luciuk (Editor), Andrew Newby (Editor)

This volume explores economic, social, and political dimensions of three catastrophic famines which struck mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth century Europe; the Irish Famine (An Gorta Mór) of 1845-1850, the Finnish Famine (Suuret Nälkävuodet) of the 1860s and the Ukrainian Famine (Holodomor) of 1932/1933.

Author Biography

Declan Curran is Lecturer in Development Economics and Industrial Economics at Dublin City University Business School, Ireland.

Lubomyr Luciuk is Professor of Political Geography at the Royal Military College of Canada and Fellow of the Chair of Ukrainian Studies at the University of Toronto.

Andrew G. Newby is Senior Research Fellow of the Academy of Finland, University of Helsinki, Finland.