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The great Irish potato famine /
- Title
- The great Irish potato famine / James S. Donnelly, Jr.
- Author
- Donnelly, James S.
- Publication
- Thrupp, Stroud, Gloucestershire : Sutton, 2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Use in library | DA950.7 .D66 2001 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- xii, 292 pages : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm
- Summary
- "The Great Irish Potato Famine provides an accessible, comprehensive account of the famine, combining narrative, analysis, historiography, and scores of contemporary illustrations. It furnishes vivid insights into the misery of the famine and the additional nightmare of the mass evictions that followed. Professor Donnelly aims to answer the numerous vexed questions which have surrounded the subject ever since. Was Britain quilty of genocide against the Irish people, or was British culpability more complex? Could the disaster have been considerably reduced in its dimensions, even if not averted altogether? Scholarly and up-to-date, this book will be required reading for anyone with an interest in Ireland or in the way natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations."--Jacket.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 271-279) and index.
- Contents
- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Famine and government response, 1845-6 -- Production, prices, and exports, 1846-51 -- Administration of relief, 1846-7 -- Soup kitchens and amending the poor law -- Amended poor law and mass death, 1847-51 -- Landlords and tenants -- Excess mortality and emigration -- Famine in Irish politics -- Constructing the memory of the famine, 1850-1900.
- ISBN
- 0750926325
- 9780750926324
- 9780750929288
- 0750929286
- LCCN
- 2002327312
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library