Author

Publication

2012 - Henry Holt and Co., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

99,250 words, Guess

Page Count

397 pages

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Classifications

  • DDC941.5081
  • LCCDA950.7 .K45 2012

Alternate Titles

  • Great famine and the saga of the Irish people

Description

This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.

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