...This chapter analyses how people thought about food during times of hunger and famine, from the very poorest to the elite; how notions of social obligation related to the food supply, and how these were made manifest through systems of almsgiving; and how other groups dependent on such charity...

... new opportunities to address book hunger through digital distribution models. The chapter also discusses how digital technologies also make it easier to pay for publishing. Once a title is made available, a digital copy can be transported to a reader anywhere in the world for pennies on the dollar...

... a hypothetical situation in order to illustrate how the fair use doctrine might apply to a potential non-profit publishing project to address book hunger. fair use doctrine Leval Pierre McDonald Joseph publishing nonprofit charitable YouTube China copyright exceptions Germany copyright law Vietnam Beebe...

... This chapter focuses on Creative Commons licensing, which has a vital role to play in tackling book hunger. Open-access books facilitate costless sharing and adaptation to diverse needs, especially through translation. It emphasizes that although open licensing is not right for everyone, all...

...; books were always too scarce, and still are. The chapter further explains that many countries in sub-Saharan Africa still cannot provide a textbook for every student. It concludes that while book hunger is most severe in Africa, it remains a problem in every region of the world. Asia's four billion...

...This chapter explores patterns of food and hunger in Victorian times. By the nineteenth century, households purchased their food in raw and largely unprocessed form, so it required considerable additional labour before it was ready for consumption. Diet therefore catches the intersection between...

...This chapter shows how the Chinese government dealt with shortages and hunger during the peak of the famine. The aim is to demonstrate the impact of government decisions regarding food supply on the development of the famine between 1959 and 1962. The chapter begins with the attitudes...

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... not work, shall not eat!” The Stalinist regime took this Soviet work ethic to extremes by making hunger both an incentive in the Gulag and a punishment. The most productive earned more food, but they had to exert themselves more to receive more, and the Gulag ration was not sufficient to compensate...

... promotion of Protestants. Meanwhile, schoolteacher Thomas Ashe was jailed in Mountjoy for a seditious speech, during which he and others went on hunger strike for political status. Ashe died due to 'heart failure and congestion of the lungs caused by being left to lie on the cold floor for fifty hours...

..., the issue of hunger remained unresolved between the lines of the first Essay, and Malthus's subsequent writing on the subject remained focused on the inescapable problem of scarcity. bread Eurysaces Rome and bread tomb of Eurysaces wheat wheaten bread Britain Linguet Simon food...

... power through a process of domestication; in a struggle for survival, humans must wage a kind of war against them all, subjugating them to their will. An Essay on the Principle of Population Malthus famine food and population hunger subsistence bread Britain food supplies grain cultivation...

...This introductory chapter begins by discussing the definition of famine and hunger, followed by an overview of famine in the Soviet Union and Maoist China, where socialism was regarded as a program for escaping chronic poverty and famine. It then sets out the book’s focus, namely comparing...

...This chapter examines food policies and peasant–state relations between 1949 and 1958 in the People’s Republic of China (PRC). It demonstrates how the topic of hunger became more and more politicized, and explains how the conflicts that had developed in the early 1950s contributed to famine...

... text, Manners relating to Eating (Kitāb ādāb al-akl). It then analyzes Ghazālī's reflections on the virtues of hunger and fasting as well as frugality, humility, and patience. It also considers fasting, prayer, and almsgiving as virtues of abstention and generosity in both Christianity...

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...This chapter shows how the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) used hunger as an argument in its narrative of the “liberation of Tibet.” It demonstrates how the creation of meaning and of dominant narratives was also linked with food politics. First, it analyzes the official version of history, according...

... This chapter talks about country music star Dolly Parton, who is also a poet at heart. She is an avid reader, with an extensive book collection. As a child growing up in Appalachia, however, Dolly experienced book hunger first-hand. It explains how Dolly's own childhood experience motivated her...