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Cover: 9781137278838 | The Famine Plot: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy | Coogan
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The Famine Plot
England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy
Taschenbuch von Tim Pat Coogan
Sprache: Englisch

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During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what The Boston Globe calls "his greatest achievement," Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible.
During a Biblical seven years in the middle of the nineteenth century, fully a quarter of Ireland's citizens either perished from starvation or emigrated in what came to be known as Gorta Mor, the Great Hunger. Waves of hungry peasants fled across the Atlantic to the United States, with so many dying en route that it was said, "you could walk dry shod to America on their bodies." In this sweeping history Ireland's best-known historian, Tim Pat Coogan, tackles the dark history of the Irish Famine and argues that it constituted one of the first acts of genocide. In what The Boston Globe calls "his greatest achievement," Coogan shows how the British government hid behind the smoke screen of laissez faire economics, the invocation of Divine Providence and a carefully orchestrated publicity campaign, allowing more than a million people to die agonizing deaths and driving a further million into emigration. Unflinching in depicting the evidence, Coogan presents a vivid and horrifying picture of a catastrophe that that shook the nineteenth century and finally calls to account those responsible.
Über den Autor
Tim Pat Coogan
Zusammenfassung
A provocative history of the Great Famine from Ireland's greatest historian
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781137278838
ISBN-10: 1137278838
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coogan, Tim Pat
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 233 x 151 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Tim Pat Coogan
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2013
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
preigu-id: 105990919
Über den Autor
Tim Pat Coogan
Zusammenfassung
A provocative history of the Great Famine from Ireland's greatest historian
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
Genre: Geschichte
Rubrik: Geisteswissenschaften
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 304
Inhalt: Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13: 9781137278838
ISBN-10: 1137278838
Sprache: Englisch
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: Coogan, Tim Pat
Hersteller: St. Martin's Publishing Group
Maße: 233 x 151 x 25 mm
Von/Mit: Tim Pat Coogan
Erscheinungsdatum: 24.09.2013
Gewicht: 0,378 kg
preigu-id: 105990919
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