Famine demography : perspectives from the past and present / edited by Tim Dyson, Cormac Ó Gráda.

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2002.

xiv, 264 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction / Tim Dyson and Cormac Ó Gráda -- Famine disease and famine mortality: lessons from the Irish experience, 1845-50 / Joel Mokyr and Cormac Ó Gráda -- The workhouses and Irish famine mortality / Timothy W. Guinnane and Cormac Ó Gráda -- Famine mortality in nineteenth-century Finland: is there a sex bias? / Kari J. Pitkänen -- Famine in Berar, 1896-7 and 1899-1900: echoes and chain reactions / Tim Dyson -- Famines and epidemics: an Indian historical perspective / Arup Maharatna -- Famine yesterday and today in Burundi / Christian Thibon -- Famine in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Russia: mortality by age, cause, and gender / Serguei Adamets -- "Send us either food or coffins": the 1941-2 famine on the Aegean island of Syros / Violetta Hionidou -- The demographic impact of a mild famine in an African city: the case of Antananarivo, 1985-7 / Michel Garenne ... [et al.] -- The frequency of famines as demographic correctives in the Japanese past / Osamu Saito -- Famine and the female mortality advantage / Kate Macintyre.

Papers originally presented at a conference held at Les Treilles in May 1999.

Includes bibliographical references and index.