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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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Basic Books,
2025.
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| Edition: | First U.S. edition. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
