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Ireland's great famine : interdisciplinary perspectives / Cormac Ó Gráda ; with the collaboration of Andrés Eiríksson ... [et al.].

Title
Ireland's great famine : interdisciplinary perspectives / Cormac Ó Gráda ; with the collaboration of Andrés Eiríksson ... [et al.].
Author
Ó Gráda, Cormac
Publication
Dublin, Ireland : University College Dublin Press, 2006.

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Eiríksson, Andrés
Description
x, 325 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
Summary
"These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. Ireland's Great Famine includes four previously unpublished essays, together with others assembled from a wide range of publications in different fields. Some have been co-authored by other leading scholars. Taken together, the essays give a full account of the famine, its effects, what was and was not done to alleviate it, how it compares with other (especially modern third world) famines, and how successive scholars have tackled these matters. This will become a standard reference in both Irish history and the international field of famine studies."--Jacket.
Subjects
Genre/Form
History
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-313) and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
1. Ireland's great famine -- 2. Poor and getting poorer? : living standards in Ireland before the famine / Cormac O. Grada and Joel Mokyr -- 3. Bankrupt landlords and the Irish famine / Cormac O. Grada and Andres Eiriksson -- 4. Famine disease and famine mortality / Cormac O. Grada and Joel Mokyr -- 5. Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine / Cormac O. Grada and Timothy W. Guinnane -- 6. The market for potatoes in Dublin in the 1840s -- 7. Mass migration as disaster relief / Cormac O. Grada and Kevin H. O'Rourke -- 8. The New York Irish in the 1850s -- 9. The famine, the New York Irish, and their bank -- 10. The great famine and other famines -- 11. Famine, trauma and memory.
ISBN
  • 9781904558583
  • 1904558585
  • 9781904558576 (pbk.)
  • 1904558577 (pbk.)
LCCN
^^2006491928
OCLC
67873816
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library