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The Famine Plot

- England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Af: Tim Pat Coogan Engelsk Paperback

The Famine Plot

- England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Af: Tim Pat Coogan Engelsk Paperback
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During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland''s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what The Boston Globe calls "his greatest achievement," Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible.
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During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland''s citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland''s best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what The Boston Globe calls "his greatest achievement," Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 304
ISBN-13: 9781137278838
Indbinding: Paperback
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ISBN-10: 1137278838
Kategori: Social- & Kulturhistorie
Udg. Dato: 16 mar 2015
Længde: 20mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 151mm
Forlag: Palgrave Macmillan
Oplagsdato: 16 mar 2015
Forfatter(e): Tim Pat Coogan
Forfatter(e) Tim Pat Coogan

Kategori Social- & Kulturhistorie

ISBN-13 9781137278838

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Paperback

Sider 304

Udgave

Længde 20mm

Bredde 235mm

Højde 151mm

Udg. Dato 16 mar 2015

Oplagsdato 16 mar 2015

Forlag Palgrave Macmillan