TheGreatIrishFamine
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- 出版社 CambridgeUniversityPress
- 出版时间 1995年10月
- ISBN 9780521557870
- 定价 191.00
内容简介
TheIrishFamineof1846–50wasoneofthegreatdisastersofthenineteenthcentury,whosenotorietyspreadsasfarasthemassemigrationwhichfollowedit.CormacO'Gráda'sconcisesurveysuggeststhataproperunderstandingofthedisasterrequiresananalysisoftheIrisheconomybeforetheinvasionofthepotato-killingfungus,Phytophthorainfestans,highlightingIrishpovertyandtheimportanceofthepotato,butalsofindingsignsofeconomicprogressbeforetheFamine.Despitethemassivedeclineinavailabilityoffood,thehugedeathtollofonemillion(fromapopulationof8.5million)washardlyinevitable;therearegroundsforsupportingtheviewthatalessdoctrinaireattitudetofaminereliefwouldhavesavedmanylives.Thisbookprovidesanup-to-dateintroductionbyaleadingexperttoaneventofmajorimportanceinthehistoryofnineteenth-centuryIrelandandBritain.
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