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Famines --- China International Famine Relief Commission.

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The Largest Amount of Good is the first full account of Quaker relief operations in Ireland and of the evolution of the Quakers' thinking on the purposes and limitations of philanthropy and the responsibility of the state in disaster. Helen Hatton describes how the Quakers rejected orthodox economic and philanthropic theory and, without seeking profit for themselves, provided grants and unguaranteed loans to develop and revitalize Irish agriculture, fisheries, and industry. They also used publicity and political pressure to push for reform of the land-holding system. Although the power of the landowners was too entrenched to be overcome entirely, the Quakers' contribution to Ireland, Hatton demonstrates, is unquestionable. The growth of the Quaker relief service, from mutual help in the seventeenth century to an institution of international standing, has been accompanied by the gradual embodiment of their principles in the direction of the Society. Their work in the Great Irish Famine marked a turning point at which the procedures they had evolved inchoately over two centuries were formulated into a methodology that is accepted today as the basis for relief and Third World development.

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During the twentieth century, 80 percent of all famine victims worldwide died in China and the Soviet Union. In this rigorous and thoughtful study, Felix Wemheuer analyzes the historical and political roots of these socialist-era famines, in which overambitious industrial programs endorsed by Stalin and Mao Zedong created greater disasters than those suffered under prerevolutionary regimes. Focusing on famine as a political tool, Wemheuer systematically exposes how conflicts about food among peasants, urban populations, and the socialist state resulted in the starvation death of millions. A major contribution to Chinese and Soviet history, this provocative analysis examines the long-term effects of the great famines on the relationship between the state and its citizens and argues that the lessons governments learned from the catastrophes enabled them to overcome famine in their later decades of rule.

Famines --- China --- Soviet Union --- Economic policy --- Economic policy. --- E-books --- S04/0920 --- S20/1040 --- China: History--PRC: 1958 - 1966 --- China: Agriculture forestry, fishery, natural disasters--Famine and famine relief --- Economic order --- Russia

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"The book explores the story of the $710 sent by the Choctaw to the Irish in 1847 and provides further context and consideration of the gift"--

Choctaw Indians --- Food relief --- History --- Ireland --- Famine relief --- Food aid programs --- Food assistance programs --- Food distribution programs --- Disaster relief --- Humanitarian assistance --- Public welfare --- Emergency food supply --- Five Civilized Tribes --- Indians of North America --- Muskogean Indians