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Black '47 and Beyond (1999) (edit title/settings)

The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory

by Cormac Ó Gráda (Author) (edit contributors)

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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... read more

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WHOEVER SAYS "Irish famine" says "potato."

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This book is in Princeton Economic History of the Western World. (authoritative list)

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  1. Cormac Ó Gráda (Author)

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Original Language: English
Publisher: Princeton University Press
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Publication Date: 1999
ISBN: 0691015503
Page Count: 320

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  • Library of Congress: DA950.7 .O366 1999
  • Dewey: 941

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