ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover
[Bayonne, NJ, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]
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Paperback / softback. New. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. This title presents the Great Irish Famine from a variety of perspectives. It concentrates on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. It highlights several economic and sociological features. ISBN 0691070156 9780691070155 [GB]

ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 320 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover
[Dallas, TX, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover Volume 8. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780691070155
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover Volume 8. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has soft covers. In good all round condition. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,600grams, ISBN:9780691070155
[Lincoln, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 1999]

Princeton Univ Pr 2000 Softcover New 320 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches.

ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover pp. 320 Illustrated Edition, Reprint
[New York, NY, U.S.A.] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton Univ Pr] Softcover 320 pages. 9.00x6.00x0.75 inches. In Stock.
[Exeter, United Kingdom] [Publication Year: 2000]

ISBN10: 0691070156, ISBN13: 9780691070155, [publisher: Princeton University Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Here Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As vividly described in Ó Gráda's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora infestans transformed the potato from an emblem of utility to a symbol of death by starvation. The Irish famine peaked in Black '47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years.Central to Irish and British history, European demography, the world history of famines, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. Moving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, Ó Gráda concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and sociological features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration. Other topics include how the Irish climate, usually ...
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Princeton University Press, Date: 2000-10-15. Paperback. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title! 2000. Princeton University Press ISBN 0691070156 9780691070155 [US]