Book: Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays 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 It includes four previously unpublished essays, together with others assembled from a wide range of publications in different fields.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.
Details of Book: Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays Book: Ireland's Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays
Author: Cormac O. Grada, Andres Eiriksson, Timothy Guinnane
ISBN: 1904558577
ISBN-13: 9781904558576
, 978-1904558576
Binding: Paperback
Publishing Date: Sep 2006
Publisher: University College Dublin Press
Number of Pages: 325
Language: English