Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-279) and index.
Contents:
Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Famine and government response, 1845-6 -- Production, prices, and exports, 1846-51 -- Administration of relief, 1846-7 -- Soup kitchens and amending the poor law -- Amended poor law and mass death, 1847-51 -- Landlords and tenants -- Excess mortality and emigration -- Famine in Irish politics -- Constructing the memory of the famine, 1850-1900.
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