Ireland's great famine : interdisciplinary perspectives /

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Author / Creator:Ó Gráda, Cormac.
Imprint:Dublin, Ireland : University College Dublin Press, 2006.
Description:x, 325 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6168157
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Other authors / contributors:Eiríksson, Andrés.
ISBN:9781904558583
1904558585
9781904558576 (pbk.)
1904558577 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-313) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • 1. Ireland's great famine
  • 2. Poor and getting poorer? : living standards in Ireland before the famine / Cormac O. Grada and Joel Mokyr
  • 3. Bankrupt landlords and the Irish famine / Cormac O. Grada and Andres Eiriksson
  • 4. Famine disease and famine mortality / Cormac O. Grada and Joel Mokyr
  • 5. Mortality in the North Dublin Union during the Great Famine / Cormac O. Grada and Timothy W. Guinnane
  • 6. The market for potatoes in Dublin in the 1840s
  • 7. Mass migration as disaster relief / Cormac O. Grada and Kevin H. O'Rourke
  • 8. The New York Irish in the 1850s
  • 9. The famine, the New York Irish, and their bank
  • 10. The great famine and other famines
  • 11. Famine, trauma and memory
  • 12. Making famine history in Ireland in the 1940s and 1950s
  • 13. Making famine history in Ireland in 1995.