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The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis

Paperback • 2022 • English

The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis

By Charles Read

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About the book

Rich in archival detail and offering a ground-breaking analysis, this book presents a radically new interpretation of British politics and policy failings during the Great Famine. The Irish famine of the 1840s is the biggest humanitarian crisis in the United Kingdom's history. Within six years of the arrival of the potato blight in Ireland in 1845, more than a quarter of its residents had unexpectedly died or emigrated. Its population has not yet fully recovered since. Historians have struggled ...Show more

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ISBN

9781783277278

Publisher

Boydell & Brewer

Published year

2022

Language

English

Original title

The Great Famine in Ireland and Britain's Financial Crisis

Format

Paperback

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