Black '47 and Beyond The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory

Name: Black '47 and Beyond The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory
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ISBN: 9780691070155

ISBN-10: 0691070156

ISBN-13: 9780691070155

Edition: 1999

Authors: Cormac ï¿½ Grï¿½da, Cormac ï¿½ Grï¿½da

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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 'Grda'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 mortality to Ireland for several years.Central to Irish and British history,…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1999
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 9/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 7.52" wide x 9.17" long x 0.85" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English