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Black '47 and beyond : the great Irish famine in history, economy, and memory /
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 po...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©1999.
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| Colección: | Princeton economic history of the Western world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover Page
- Half-title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication Page
- Contents
- List of Figures
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Contexts and Chronology
- The Potato
- The Condition of Pre-Famine Ireland
- Weather, Climate, and the Famine
- A Brief Chronology
- Chapter Two: Relief
- Agency and Voice
- Captain O'Brien and Captain Wynne
- Other Options
- Did England Sleep?
- Chapter Three: The Demography of the Irish Famine
- The Toll in Lives
- The Role of Medicine
- Famine and Gender
- The Famine and Emigration
- New York's Famine Irish
- Chapter Four: Winners and Losers
- Entitlements
- Landlords
- Traders and Markets
- Moneylenders
- Chapter Five: Famine in Dublin City
- Dublin: The Face Behind the Gorgeous Mask
- Famine Mortality in Dublin
- An Institutional Perspective
- Appendix: A Note on the Glasnevin Burials
- Chapter Six: Famine Memory
- History and Memory
- The Famine in Folk Memory
- Famine Mortality
- Hunger and Theft
- The Potato before the Blight
- Conflict, Resentment, and Amnesia
- Miracles: Hospitality Rewarded
- The Famine in Ballad and Song
- Appendix: References to Rates of Fay on the Public Works
- Chapter Seven: The Legacy
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index