A Death-Dealing Famine - The Great Hunger in Ireland
Pluto PressSivumäärä: 200 sivuaAsu: Pehmeäkantinen kirjaJulkaisuvuosi: 1997, 20.03.1997 (lisätietoa)Kieli: Englanti 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.