The Great Irish Potato Famine - by James S Donnelly (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for food. So when potoato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grevious loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, changing the country forever. During and after this terrible human crisis, the British government was bitterly accused of not averting the disaster or offering enough aid. Some even believed that the Whig government's policies were tantamount to genocide against the Irish population. James Donnelly's account looks closely at the political and social consequences of the great Irish potoato famine and explores the way that natural disasters and government responses to them can alter the destiny of nations"--Back cover.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>This is an account of the Great Irish Potato Famine of the late 1840s, a famine which resulted in the death of about one million people and was also largely responsible, in conjunction with British government policies, for one of the great international human migrations of British history--the mass exodus of some two million people from Ireland, mostly to North America, in the years 1845-1855. This book combines narrative, analysis, historiography, and scores of contemporary illustrations. This work aims to provide an insight into the misery of the famine and the nightmare of mass evictions that followed.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>James S. Donnelly, Jr</b>, is a professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. One of the most prolific and wide-ranging historians of Ireland, he is the author of <i>The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork, </i> which was awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association). He is a coeditor of the journal <i>Eire-Ireland</i>.
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