Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine - Hardcover
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Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541601543ISBN-10:1541601548UPC:9781541601543Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, ImperialismBook Topic:IrelandSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCVR5T041R
Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
A "stunning" (Maya Jasanoff, author of The Dawn Watch) and revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland's most infamous disaster In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, then part of the United Kingdom, that the blight's devastation reached apocalyptic levels,...
Language:EnglishPublisher:Basic BooksISBN-13:9781541601543ISBN-10:1541601548UPC:9781541601543Book Category:History, Political ScienceBook Subcategory:Europe, ImperialismBook Topic:IrelandSize:9.30 x 6.30 x 1.40 inchesWeight:1.2522Product ID:SCVR5T041R
Padraic X. Scanlan is an associate professor at the Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto. His writing has appeared in the Washington Post, the Guardian, the Times Literary Supplement, and the New Inquiry. The author of two previous books, he lives in Toronto.
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