Organized by time periods, this book addresses hunger first in the earliest ages of human habitation, then in the classical periods of Sumer, the Indus valley, Athens, and Rome millennia ago, later in the developing world economy of the past centuries, and finally in the ermerging global food system of the recent past. In examing the past, Hunger in History employs a conceptual framework of hunger, viewing food shortage in regions, food poverty in households, and food deprivation in individuals.-jacket.