A death-dealing famine : the great hunger in Ireland
(1997)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Pluto Press, 1997
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781783714049 MWT15452349, 1783714042 15452349
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants
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