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When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850 (Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area)
When the Potato Failed Causes and Effects of the 'Last' European Subsistence Crisis 18451850 - Comparative Rural History of the North Sea Area
Author: Cormac O'grada
The decade that gave rise to the term 'the Hungry Forties' in Europe is often regarded, and rightly so, as one of deprivation, unrest, and revolution. This book is the first to discuss the subsistence crisis of the 1840s - including the Great Irish Famine and the various political events of 1848 - in a truly comparative way. This subsistence cri...  more »
ISBN-13: 9782503519852
ISBN-10: 2503519857
Publication Date: 3/30/2007
Pages: 342
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Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Book Type: Paperback
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