Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
Report of the Managing Committee of the House of Recovery, and Fever Hospital, in Cork-Street Dublin, for Two Years 1826, 1828, 1829
Author: Authors and Subjects
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon General's Office, United States
Author: Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-General's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Incunabula
Languages : en
Pages : 1062
Book Description
Index Catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: Library of the Surgeon-General's Office (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medical libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
Report of the Managing Committee of the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital ... for One Year Ending the 4th January 1829
Author: Cork Fever Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Medical Report of the House of Recovery and Fever Hospital, Cork-Street, Dublin, for Two Years, from 1st of January, 1844, to 31st of December, 1845
Author: Cork Fever Hospital (Dublin, Ireland)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Electronic books
Languages : en
Pages : 66
Book Description
Index-catalogue of the Library of the Surgeon-general's Office, United States Army
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1064
Book Description
The Sale Catalogues of British Government Publications, 1836-1921: 1836-1889
Author: Great Britain. Her Majesty's Stationery OfficePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 496
Book Description
Black '47 and Beyond
Author: Cormac Ó GrádaPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691217920
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
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 hospitable to the potato, exacerbated the failure of the crops in 1845-1847, and the controversial issue of Britain's failure to provide adequate relief to the dying Irish. Ó Gráda also examines the impact on urban Dublin of what was mainly a rural disaster and offers a critical analysis of the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition. The broad scope of this book is matched by its remarkable range of sources, published and archival. The book will be the starting point for all future research into the Irish famine.