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Title Ireland's Great Famine and popular politics / enda Delaney ; Breandan Mac Suibhne
Published Basingstoke : Taylor & Francis Ltd, 2015

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Description 1 online resource (296 pages)
Series Routledge Studies in Modern European History ; 31
Routledge studies in modern European history ; 31.
Summary Ireland's Great Famine of 1845-52 was among the most devastating food crises in modern history. A country of some eight-and-a-half-million people lost one million to hunger and disease and another million to emigration. According to land activist Michael Davitt, the starving made little or no effort to assert "the animal's right to existence," passively accepting their fate. But the poor did resist. In word and deed, they defied landlords, merchants and agents of the state: they rioted for food, opposed rent and rate collection, challenged the decisions of those controlling relief works, and scorned clergymen who attributed their suffering to the Almighty. The essays collected here examine the full range of resistance in the Great Famine, and illuminate how the crisis itself transformed popular politics. Contributors include distinguished scholars of modern Ireland and emerging historians and critics. This book is essential reading for students of modern Ireland, and the global history of collective action
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Subject Famines -- Political aspects -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Famines -- Social aspects -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Poor -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Government, Resistance to -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Political culture -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
Social change -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century
HISTORY -- Europe -- Western.
Famines -- Political aspects
Famines -- Social aspects
Government, Resistance to
Political culture
Politics and government
Poor
Social change
Social conditions
SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh95010073
Ireland -- Politics and government -- 1837-1901. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068041
Ireland -- Social conditions -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh96007741
Subject Ireland
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Delaney, Enda
Mac Suibhne, Breandan
ISBN 9781134757985
1134757980