Black 47 And Beyond: The Great Irish Famine In History, Economy, And Memory; Author: O Grada, Cormac; Hardback; Book

Author: O Grada, Cormac
Princeton Economic History of the Western World (Hardcover); Hardback; Book; 38 Line Illustrations, 54 Tables
320 pages
Published: March 1999
University Presses of California, Columbia and Princeton
ISBN: 0691015503

Cormac O Grada is Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine. Here he examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Central to Irish and British history, and the story of American immigration, the Great Irish Famine is presented here from a variety of new perspectives. O Grada concentrates on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods.This text presents the Irish Famine from many perspectives. It highlights economic and sociological features of the famine, such as the part traders, medical science and migration played. It examines the impact on Dublin, and analyzes the famine as represented in folk memory and tradition.