Cecil Woodham-Smith: The Great Hunger

Cover: 9780140145151 | The Great Hunger | Ireland: 1845-1849 | Cecil Woodham-Smith | Buch

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The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D.W. Brogan.

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Cecil Woodham-Smith

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Empfohlen (von):	18
Erscheinungsjahr:	1992
Fachbereich:	Allgemeines
Genre:	Geschichte , Importe
Rubrik:	Geisteswissenschaften
Thema:	Lexika
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Einband - flex.(Paperback)
ISBN-13:	9780140145151
ISBN-10:	014014515X
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Woodham-Smith, Cecil
Auflage:	Revised edition
Hersteller:	Penguin Publishing Group
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	197 x 129 x 22 mm
Von/Mit:	Cecil Woodham-Smith
Erscheinungsdatum:	01.09.1992
Gewicht:	0,362 kg