1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910699707703321

Autore

Peters Gretchen

Titolo

How opium profits the Taliban [[electronic resource] /] / Gretchen Peters

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, DC : , : U.S. Institute of Peace, , [2009]

©2009

Descrizione fisica

1 online (39 pages)

Collana

Peaceworks ; ; no. 62.

Soggetti

Opium trade - Afghanistan

Drug traffic - Afghanistan

Afghanistan Economic conditions

Afghanistan Politics and government 2001-

United States Foreign relations Afghanistan

Afghanistan Foreign relations United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF cover (usip.org, viewed Nov. 27, 2009).

"First published August 2009."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction -- A brief history -- The neo-Taliban -- Key challenges -- Conclusion.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961970403321

Autore

Griffin Carl J (Carl James)

Titolo

The politics of hunger : Protest, poverty and policy in England, <i>c.</i> 1750–<i>c.</i> 1840 / / Carl Griffin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Baltimore, Maryland : , : Project Muse, , 2020

Baltimore, Md. : , : Project MUSE, , 2020

©2020

ISBN

9781526145611

1526145618

9781526152022

1526152029

9781526145635

1526145634

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 263 pages) :) : illustrations

Disciplina

362.5094209033

Soggetti

Hunger - England - History - 19th century

Hunger - England - History - 18th century

Poverty - England - History - 19th century

Poverty - England - History - 18th century

Electronic books.

Great Britain Social conditions 19th century

Great Britain Social conditions 18th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : 'the unremitted pressure' : on hunger politics -- Food riots and the languages of hunger -- The persistence of the discourse of starvation in the protests of the poor -- Measuring need : Speenhamland, hunger and universal pauperism -- Dietaries and the less eligibility workhouse : or, the making of the poor as biological subjects -- The biopolitics of hunger : Malthus, Hodge and the racialisation of the poor -- Telling the hunger of 'distant' others.

Sommario/riassunto

The 1840s witnessed widespread hunger and malnutrition at home and mass starvation in Ireland. And yet the aptly named Hungry 40s came



amidst claims that, notwithstanding Malthusian prophecies, absolute biological want had been eliminated in England. The eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were supposedly the period in which the threat of famine lifted for the peoples of England. But hunger remained, in the words of Marx, an unremitted pressure. The politics of hunger offers the first systematic analysis of the ways in which hunger continued to be experienced and feared, both as a lived and constant spectral presence. It also examines how hunger was increasingly used as a disciplining device in new modes of governing the population. Drawing upon a rich archive, this innovative and conceptually-sophisticated study throws new light on how hunger persisted as a political and biological force.