Bryce Evans

Ireland during the Second World War (eBook, ePUB)

Farewell to Plato's Cave

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In the first book detailing the social and economic history of Ireland during the Second World War, Bryce Evans reveals the real story of the Irish emergency. Revealing just how precarious the Irish state's economic position was at the time, the book examines the consequences of Winston Churchill's economic war against neutral Ireland. It explores how the Irish government coped with the crisis and how ordinary Irish people reacted to emergency state control of the domestic marketplace. A hidden history of black markets, smugglers, rogues and rebels emerges, providing a fascinating slice of real life in Ireland during a crucial period in world history. As the first comparison of economic and social conditions in Ireland with those of the other European neutral states - Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and Portugal - the book will make essential reading for the informed general reader, students and academics alike.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pittsburgh Press
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Mai 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526111302
• Artikelnr.: 48795473

Autorenporträt

Bryce Evans is Lecturer in Modern History at Liverpool Hope University

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: farewell to Plato's cave 2. Anglo-Irish trade and business
relations 3. Moral policemen of the domestic economy 4. Conditions in town
and country 5. Smuggling 6. Church and state 7. Coercion in the countryside
8. The state and the small man 9. Conclusions Bibliography Index