Christine Kinealy

A Death-Dealing Famine (eBook, ePUB)

The Great Hunger in Ireland

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52.

The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Pluto Press
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. März 1997
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781783714049
• Artikelnr.: 49258539

Autorenporträt

Christine Kinealy is a lecturer in history at the University of Central Lancashire. She is the author of The Great Calamity: The Irish Famine, 1845-52 (Roberts Reinhart, 1994) and The Hidden Famine (Pluto Press, 2000). She has written for History Ireland and the New York-based Irish Echo.