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Famine Worlds : Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War by Tylor...
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- Condition
- Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
- Subject
- Modern / 20th Century, Disasters & Disaster Relief, World, Middle East / General
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- Lebanon
- ISBN
- 9781503636163
- Publication Year
- 2023
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Subject Area
- History, Social Science
- Publication Name
- Famine Worlds : Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Number of Pages
- 276 Pages
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World War I was a catastrophe for the lands that would become Lebanon. With war came famine, and with famine came unspeakable suffering, starvation, and mass death. For nearly four years the deadly crisis reshaped society, killing untold thousands and transforming how people lived, how they interacted, and even how they saw the world around them. Famine Worlds peers out at the famine through their eyes, from the wealthy merchants and the dwindling middle classes, to those perishing in the streets. Tylor Brand draws on memoirs, diaries, and correspondence to explore how people negotiated the famine and its traumas. Many observers depicted society in collapse--the starving poor became wretched victims and the well-fed became villains or heroes for the judgment of their peers. He shows how individual struggles had social effects. The famine altered beliefs and behaviors, and those in turn influenced social relationships, policies, and even the historical memory of generations to come. More than simply a chronicle of the Great Famine, however, Famine Worlds offers a profound meditation on what it means to live through such collective trauma, and how doing so shapes the character of a society. Brand shows that there are consequences to living amid omnipresent suffering and death. A crisis like the Great Famine is transformative in ways we cannot comprehend. It not only reshapes the lives and social worlds of those who suffer, it creates a particular rationality that touches the most fundamental parts of our being, even down to the ways we view and interact with each other. We often assume that if we were thrust into historic calamity that we would continue to behave compassionately. Famine Worlds questions such confidence, providing a lesson that could not be more timely.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
150363616x
ISBN-13
9781503636163
eBay Product ID (ePID)
10057281408
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Famine Worlds : Life at the Edge of Suffering in Lebanon's Great War
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Modern / 20th Century, Disasters & Disaster Relief, World, Middle East / General
Publication Year
2023
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
History, Social Science
Number of Pages
276 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2022-048604
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Lc Classification Number
D524.7.L4b73 2023
Reviews
" Famine Worlds is a tour de force of history and theory. Tylor Brand recovers the silenced cultural and economic history of the famine of Lebanon, and makes it speak vitally to current debates on mass trauma in Lebanon and beyond. A must read for historians, anthropologists, and relief workers in our age of climate change."--Elizabeth Thompson, author of How the West Stole Democracy from the Arabs, "In Famine Worlds , [Brand] brilliantly studies how the population of Lebanon experienced a famine that brought massive death, changed society, and left an often unspoken but indelible mark on the country's historical consciousness."--Marc Martorell Junyent, Informed Comment, "One of the forgotten famines of the past is the tragedy that struck the mainly Maronite population of mountainous north Lebanon during World War I. Tylor Brand's study of a famine that will henceforth be better known is erudite and accessible, fair and empathetic. A great book."--Cormac Gráda, author of Famine: A Short History and Eating People is Wrong: Essays on the History and Future of Famine, " Famine Worlds is a meticulously researched account that will appeal to those with a scholarly interest in the historical Levant."--Syed Hamad Ali, The National, " Famine Worlds offers a fascinating window into a period often overlooked, and lucidly recounts the trials, tribulation, and turmoil of everyday people during the Great War. A highly recommended read and, without a doubt, a significant and thoroughly elucidating contribution to the history of the modern Middle East."--Leila Fawaz, author of A Land of Aching Hearts: The Middle East in the Great War
Table of Content
Introduction: Four Years of War 1. Some "Sufficed"; Others Died 2. Death and the Famished Body 3. Staying Alive 4. Trauma and Time 5. A World in Decline 6. The Unwashed and Unwell 7. The Sheep and the Goats 8. Conclusion: An Uncomfortable Memory
Copyright Date
2023
Dewey Decimal
940.35692
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
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