Finland's Great Famine, 1856-68
Newby, Andrew G.
- 出版商: Palgrave MacMillan
- 出版日期: 2024-05-18
- 售價: $5,460
- 貴賓價: 9.5 折 $5,187
- 語言: 英文
- 頁數: 319
- 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
- ISBN: 3031194764
- ISBN-13: 9783031194764
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This book will provide a thematic overview of one of European history's most devastating famines, the Great Finnish Famine of the 1860s. In 1868, the nadir of several years of worsening economic conditions, 137,000 people (approximately 8% of the Finnish population) perished as the result of hunger and disease. The attitudes and policies enacted by Finland's devolved administration tended to follow European norms, and therefore were often similar to the "colonial" practices seen in other famines at the time. What is distinctive about this catastrophe in a mid-nineteenth-century context, is that despite Finland being a part of the Russian Empire, it was largely responsible for its own governance, and indeed was developing its economic, political and cultural autonomy at the time of the famine. Finland's Great Famine 1856-68 examines key themes such as the use of emergency foods, domestic and overseas charity, vagrancy and crime, emergency relief works, and emigration.
商品描述(中文翻譯)
這本書將提供一個主題性的概述,介紹歐洲歷史上最嚴重的饑荒之一,即1860年代的芬蘭大饑荒。在1868年,經濟狀況持續惡化的幾年中,約有13.7萬人(約佔芬蘭人口的8%)因飢餓和疾病而喪生。芬蘭的地方政府所採取的態度和政策往往遵循歐洲的標準,因此在當時與其他饑荒中所見的「殖民地」做法相似。這場災難在19世紀中葉的背景下的獨特之處在於,儘管芬蘭是俄羅斯帝國的一部分,但在饑荒期間,芬蘭在很大程度上負責自己的治理,並且正在發展其經濟、政治和文化的自治。《芬蘭大饑荒1856-68》探討了一些關鍵主題,如緊急食品的使用、國內和海外的慈善、流浪和犯罪、緊急救濟工程以及移民。
作者簡介
Dr. Andrew G. Newby is Senior Lecturer in Transnational and Comparative History at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland.
作者簡介(中文翻譯)
Dr. Andrew G. Newby 是芬蘭協和大學跨國與比較歷史學的高級講師。