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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

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