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20%OFFCormac Ó Gráda - Black ´47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory - 9780691070155 - 9780691070155
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Black ´47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory

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Description for Black ´47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory Paperback. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. This title presents the Great Irish Famine from a variety of perspectives. It concentrates on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. It highlights several economic and sociological features. Series: The Princeton Economic History of the Western World. Num Pages: 320 pages, 54 tables, 38 line illus. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBLL; HBTB; JFFC1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 164 x 10. Weight in Grams: 466.
Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in O Grada's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased ... Read more

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Series
The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691070155
SKU
9780691070155
Shipping Time
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About Cormac Ó Gráda
Cormac Ó Gráda is Professor of Economics at University College, Dublin. His most recent works include Ireland: A New Economic History and A Rocky Road: The Irish Economy since the 1920s.

Reviews for Black ´47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
Winner of the 2000 James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Best Book on Irish History or Social Studies One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999 "One of the book's great strengths is the attempt to place the Irish experience in the contexts of famines in other parts of the world and to compare it to other historical famines, an ... Read more

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