LEADER 04192cam 2200553 i 4500001 on1347265125 003 OCoLC 005 20231106090856.0 008 221007s2023 caub b 001 0 eng 010 2022048604 020 9781503636163 020 9781503633247 |qhardcover 020 1503633241 |qhardcover 020 150363616X |qpaperback 020 |z9781503636170 |qelectronic book 035 (Sirsi) o1347265125 035 (OCoLC)1347265125 040 CSt/DLC |beng |erda |cDLC |dBDX |dOCLCF |dUKMGB |dYDX |dUtOrBLW 042 pcc 043 a-le--- 050 00 D524.7.L4 |bB73 2023 082 00 940.35692 |223/eng/20221011 100 1 Brand, Tylor, |eauthor. |=^A1461808 245 10 Famine worlds : |blife at the edge of suffering in Lebanon's Great War / |cTylor Brand. 264 1 Stanford, California : |bStanford University Press, |c[2023] 300 xvi, 256 pages : |bmaps ; |c24 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 504 Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 Introduction : four years of war -- Some sufficed, others died -- Death and the famished body -- Staying alive -- Trauma and time -- A world in decline -- The unwashed and unwell -- The sheep and the goats -- Conclusion : an uncomfortable memory. 520 "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"-- |cProvided by publisher. 650 0 World War, 1914-1918 |xSocial aspects |zLebanon. |=^A12982 650 0 Famines |zLebanon |xHistory |y20th century. |=^A1887 651 0 Lebanon |xSocial conditions |y1516-1918. |=^A1462334 650 7 Famines. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst00920590 650 7 Social aspects. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01354981 650 7 Social conditions. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01919811 651 7 Lebanon. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01206063 |?UNAUTHORIZED 647 7 World War |d(1914-1918) |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01180746 648 7 1516-1999 |2fast 655 7 History. |2fast |0(OCoLC)fst01411628 776 08 |iOnline version:Brand, Tylor. |tFamine worlds. |dStanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2023 |z9781503636170 |w(DLC) 2022048605 949 Order on Demand |wASIS |hJOYNER219 960 |o1 |s28.00 |uJHIS |zUSD 961 |fDMD |m138099 596 1 998 6220360