Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory

by Cormac O Grada and Cormac Ó Gráda

Book Overview

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 Gr da's new work, the advent of the blight phytophthora...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691070156
• ISBN13: 9780691070155
• Release Date: October 2000
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.1"