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- A History of the Irish Famine
Engelsk Hardback
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- A History of the Irish Famine
Engelsk Hardback

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''A vigorous and engaging new study of the Irish famine . . . Richly underpinned by research in contemporary sources and firmly rooted in historical scholarship.'' Fintan O''Toole

''A vivid, polemical narrative that does justice to victims and explains the ideologies that worsened the disaster.'' Irish Independent

''Scanlan''s history of the ''''Great Hunger'''' and its repercussions is meticulous, measured and damning.'' Financial Times

''Mr. Scanlan''s haunting and terrible book is undoubtedly a history title of the year.'' Wall Street Journal

In the 1800s, as Britain became the world''s most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions about political economy and ''civilisation'', threatening disorder in Britain. Ireland was a laboratory for empire, shaping British ideas about colonisation, population, ecology and work.

In Rot, Padraic Scanlan reinterprets the history of this time and the result is a revelatory account of Ireland''s Great Famine. In the first half of the nineteenth century, nowhere in Europe - or the world - did the working poor depend as completely on potatoes as in Ireland. To many British observers, potatoes were evidence of a lack of modernity among the Irish. However, Ireland before the famine more closely resembled capitalism''s future than its past. While poverty before and during the Great Famine was often blamed on Irish backwardness, it did in fact stem from the British Empire''s embrace of modern capitalism.

Uncovering the disaster''s roots in Britain''s deep imperial faith in markets and capitalism, Rot reshapes our understanding of the Famine and its tragic legacy.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
352
ISBN-13:
9781472146878
Indbinding:
Hardback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
1472146875
Udg. Dato:
13 mar 2025
Længde:
31mm
Bredde:
164mm
Højde:
243mm
Forlag:
Little, Brown Book Group
Oplagsdato:
13 mar 2025
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