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Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century

Gail Turley Houston

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Taylor & Francis Ltd
Año de edición:
2022
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Historia
ISBN:
9780367187521

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This volume shows how rhetoric itself experiences a crisis of representation in the face of such dramatic, tragic events: how does a culture deal with its own chosen guilty and irrational psychological motives for casting a blind eye to famine within its own borders?

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