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The Great Hunger
- Ireland 1845-1849
Engelsk Paperback

The Great Hunger

- Ireland 1845-1849
Engelsk Paperback

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The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account.

‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
528
ISBN-13:
9780140145151
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
014014515X
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Udg. Dato:
30 maj 1991
Længde:
23mm
Bredde:
130mm
Højde:
196mm
Forlag:
Penguin Books Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 maj 1991
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