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050 00 $aDA950.7$b.O366 1999
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100 1 $aÓ Gráda, Cormac.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n90670741
245 10 $aBlack '47 and beyond :$bthe great Irish famine in history, economy, and memory /$cCormac Ó Gráda.
260 $aPrinceton, N.J. :$bPrinceton University Press,$c[1999], ©1999.
300 $axii, 302 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm.
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490 1 $aThe Princeton economic history of the Western world
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [277]-296) and index.
505 00 $gCh. 1.$tContexts and Chronology --$gCh. 2.$tRelief --$gCh. 3.$tThe Demography of the Irish Famine --$gCh. 4.$tWinners and Losers --$gCh. 5.$tFamine in Dublin City --$gCh. 6.$tFamine Memory --$gCh. 7.$tThe Legacy.
520 $aHere 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.
520 8 $aAs vividly described in O Grada'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.
520 8 $aMoving away from the traditional narrative historical approach to the catastrophe, O Grada concentrates instead on fresh insights available through interdisciplinary and comparative methods. He highlights several economic and demographic features of the famine previously neglected in the literature, such as the part played by traders and markets, by medical science, and by migration.
650 0 $aFamines$zIreland$xHistory$y19th century.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008120245
651 0 $aIreland$xEconomic conditions.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067984
651 0 $aIreland$xHistory$yFamine, 1845-1852.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010073
651 0 $aIreland$xHistory$y1837-1901.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068019
830 0 $aPrinceton economic history of the Western world.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n95071937
852 00 $boff,glx$hDA950.7$i.O366 1999
852 00 $bbar$hDA950.7$i.O366 1999
852 00 $bmil$hDA950.7$i.O366 1999