Famine expert Christine Kinealy examines the influences that shaped the responses to the Famine of 1845-52.
The key factors she analyses include political ideologies; providentialist ideas that read the potato blight as a judgement from God; opportunistic interpretations; the role of civil servants, Irish landlords and merchants.
| ISBN: | 9780745310749 |
| Publication date: | 20th March 1997 |
| Author: | Christine Kinealy |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 192 pages |
| Genres: |
International relations European history |