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Apparitions of Death and Disease: The Great Hunger in Ireland
Christine Kinealy
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Description for Apparitions of Death and Disease: The Great Hunger in Ireland
Paperback. Christine Kinealy provides a chronology of the Famine and examines the causes and consequences of this tragedy, and asks how could a famine of this magnitude occur at the centre of the British Empire? Why did Ireland starve? Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 281 x 229 x 7. Weight in Grams: 224.
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845 - 1852 - the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music. This publications initiative is devised to augment the Museum experience, and is part of the Museum's commitment to making its collection accessible to ... Read more
Ireland's Great Hunger Museum at Quinnipiac University publishes Famine Folios, a unique resource for students, scholars and researchers, as well as general readers, covering many aspects of the Famine in Ireland from 1845 - 1852 - the worst demographic catastrophe of nineteenth-century Europe. The essays are interdisciplinary in nature, and make available new research in Famine studies by internationally established scholars in history, art history, cultural theory, philosophy, media history, political economy, literature and music. This publications initiative is devised to augment the Museum experience, and is part of the Museum's commitment to making its collection accessible to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Quinnipiac University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
40
Place of Publication
Hamden, United States
ISBN
9780990468615
SKU
9780990468615
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99-4
About Christine Kinealy
Christine Kinealy writes on modern Ireland, with a focus on the Great Hunger and is the founding Director of Ireland's Great Hunger Institute at Quinnipiac University in Connecticut.
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