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

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

Introduction / Tim Dyson and Cormac ظO Grبda -- Famine disease and famine mortality: lessons from the Irish experience, 1845-50 / Joel Mokyr and Cormac ظO Grبda -- The workhouses and Irish famine mortality / Timothy W. Guinnane and Cormac ظO Grبda -- Famine mortality in nineteenth-century Finland: is there a sex bias? / Kari J. Pitkёnen -- 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 1941-2famine 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 ... [and others] -- The frequency of famines as demographic correctives in the Japanese past / Osamu Saito -- Famine and the female mortalityadva