1: Tim Dyson and Cormac Ó Gráda: Introduction
2: Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda: Famine disease and famine
mortality: lessons from the Irish experience, 1845-50
3: Timothy W. Guinnane and Cormac Ó Gráda: The workhouses and Irish
famine mortality
4: Kari Pitkänen: Famine mortality in nineteenth century Finland:
is there a sex bias?
5: Tim Dyson: Famine in Berar, 1896-97 and 1899-1900: echoes and
chain reactions
6: Arup Maharatna: Famines and epidemics: an Indian historical
perspective
7: Christian Thibon: Famine yesterday and today in Burundi
8: Serguei Adamets: Famine in nineteenth and twentieth century
Russia: mortality by age, cause and gender
9: Violetta Hionidou: 'Send us food or coffins': the 1942-42 famine
on the Aegean island of Syros
10: Michel Garenne, Dominique Waltisperger, Pierre Cantrelle, and
Osée Ralijoana: The demographic impact of a mild famine in an
African city: the case of Antananarivo, 1985-87
11: Osamu Saito: The frequency of famines as demographic
correctives in the Japanese past
12: Kate Macintyre: Famine and the female mortality advantage
Tim Dyson is Professor of Population Studies at the London School
of Economics. Educated in England and Canada, he has held Visiting
Fellowships at the Australian National University in Canberra and
the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai. In
1994-96 he was President of the British Society for Population
Studies and in 1997 he addressed the Oxford Farming Conference. His
main areas of research have been on the analysis of demographic
time
series, interactions between populations and their food supplies,
and the past, present, and future population of the Indian
subcontinent. He is currently working on an international project
on the future
of India, funded by the Wellcome Trust. He was elected a Fellow of
the British Academy in 2001. Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor in the
Department of Economics at University College, Dublin.
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