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Ireland's great famine : interdisciplinary perspectives / Cormac Ó Gráda ; with the collaboration of Andrés Eiríksson ... [and others].
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Ó Gráda, Cormac.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ireland--History--Famine, 1845-1852.
- Ireland.
- History.
- Physical Description:
- x, 325 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Dublin, Ireland : University College Dublin Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- Essays ranging widely over topics associated with Ireland's Great Famine. It includes four previously unpublished essays, together with others assembled from a wide range of publications in different fields. The essays give a full account of the famine, its effects, what was and was not done to alleviate it, how it compares with other (especially modern third world) famines, and how successive scholars have tackled these matters.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 267-313) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1904558585
- 1904558577
- OCLC:
- 67873816
- Publisher Number:
- 9781904558583 (hbk.)
- 9781904558576 (pbk.)
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