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Título: The Famine Plot Condición: Nuevo Subtítulos: England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy Autor: Tim Pat Coogan Formato: Tapa blanda ISBN-10: 1137278838 EAN: 9781137278838 ISBN: 9781137278838 Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Género: History Tema: Society & Culture, Social Sciences Fecha de publicación: 16/03/2015 Description: 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. Idioma: inglés País/Región de fabricación: GB Altura del artículo: 235mm Longitud del artículo: 153mm Ancho del artículo: 20mm Peso: 351g Año de publicación: 2015 ¿Falta información?
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