Rot an imperial history of the Irish famine
"In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight's devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million people dead by starvation and forcing millions more to emig...
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2025.
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| 100 | 1 | |a Scanlan, Padraic X., |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Rot : |b an imperial history of the Irish famine / |c Padraic X. Scanlan. |
| 246 | 3 | 0 | |a Imperial history of the Irish famine |
| 250 | |a First U.S. edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York, NY : |b Basic Books, |c 2025. | |
| 300 | |a vii, 340 pages ; 25 cm | ||
| 336 | |a text |b txt |2 rdacontent | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a Irish questions -- A hungry island -- Working for the dead horse -- The people's potato -- Peel's brimstone -- The end of the world -- Expulsions -- The Crystal Palace. | |
| 520 | |a "In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight's devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million people dead by starvation and forcing millions more to emigrate. In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers the definitive account of the Great Famine, showing how British imperialism left Ireland uniquely vulnerable to starvation. Ireland's overreliance on the potato was a desperate adaptation to an unstable and unequal marketplace created by British colonialism. The empire's laissez faire economic policies saw Ireland exporting livestock and grain even as its people starved. British officials refused to send aid, believing that only free markets and wage labor could save the Irish. Ireland's wretchedness, before and during the Great Famine, was often blamed on Irish backwardness, but in fact, it resulted from the British empire's embrace of modern capitalism. Uncovering the disaster's roots in Britain's deep imperial faith in markets, commerce, and capitalism, Rot completely reshapes our understanding of the Great Famine and its tragic legacy"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Famines |z Ireland |x History |y 19th century. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Late blight of potato |z Ireland. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Ireland |x History |y Famine, 1845-1852. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Great Britain |x Foreign economic relations |z Ireland. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Ireland |x Foreign economic relations |z Great Britain. | |
| 651 | 0 | |a Ireland |x Colonial influence. | |
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