A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland
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Book Overview
Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52. The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0745310745
ISBN13:9780745310749
Release Date:May 1997
Publisher:Pluto Press (UK)
Length:200 Pages
Weight:0.60 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 5.3" x 8.4"
Customer Reviews
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Truth-dealing Kinealy
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 15 years ago
Kinealy's Death-Dealing Famine is scholarly but accessible. Her data on English exports from Ireland is staggering, put into a context that explains the diastrous effects on the Irish people of English hatred and greed.A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland
Christine Kinealy got it right !
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 27 years ago
Christine Kinealy got it right. Such truths help to heal and hopefully forgive the English and their government for their bad behavior 150 years ago. Never again.
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