Ireland's Great Famine and Popular Politics

Herausgeber: Delaney, Enda; Mac Suibhne, Breandán

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Produktbeschreibung

"Ireland's Great Famine of 1845-52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no effort to assert 'the animal's right to existence,' passively accepting their fate. But the poor did resist. In word and deed, they defied landlords, merchants and agents of the state: they rioted for food, opposedrent and rate collection, challenged the decisions of those controlling relief works, and scorned clergymen who attributed their suffering to the Almighty. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Famine, and illuminatehow the crisis itself transformed popular politics. Contributors include distinguished scholars of modern Ireland and emerging historians and critics. This book is essential reading for students of modern Ireland, and the global history of collective action"--

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Produktdetails

• Routledge Studies in Modern European History
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 254
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 494g
• ISBN-13: 9780415836302
• ISBN-10: 0415836301
• Artikelnr.: 36900025

Autorenporträt

Enda Delaney is Professor of Modern History at the University of Edinburgh. Breandán Mac Suibhne is Associate Professor of History at Centenary College, New Jersey.

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Introduction: 'To Assert Even the Animal's Right of Existence'
Enda Delaney and Breandán Mac Suibhne 1. ''Tis Hard to Argue Starvation
into Quiet': Protest and Resistance, 1846-47 John Cunningham 2. 'The
Tottering, Fluttering, Palpitating Mass': Power and Hunger in Nineteenth
Century Literary Responses to the Great Famine Melissa Fegan 3. Soup and
Providence: Varieties of Protestantism and the Great Famine David W. Miller
4. Walking Backward to Heaven?: Edmond Ronayne's Pilgrimage in Famine
Ireland and Gilded Age America Kerby A. Miller and Ellen Skerrett, with
Bridget Kelly 5. The Great Famine, Land and the Making of the Graziers
David S. Jones 6. Aspects of Agency: John Ross Mahon, Accommodation and
Resistance on the Strokestown Estate, 1845-51 Ciarán Reilly 7. 'Bastard
Ribbonism': The Molly Maguires, the Uneven Failure of Entitlement and the
Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment Breandán Mac Suibhne