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    The Hidden Victims

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    A staggering new account of the civilian death toll of the world wars and what it reveals about the true nature and cost of modern war.

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    Black ‘47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy and Memory

    Cormac O Grada

    The Irish famine peaked in Black ‘47, but it brought misery and increased mortality to Ireland for several years. This title presents the Great Irish Famine from a variety of…

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    Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History

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    Tells the real story of how Jewish Ireland - and Dublin’s Little Jerusalem in particular - made ends meet from the 1870s, when the first Lithuanian Jewish immigrants landed in…

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    Famine: A Short History

    Cormac O Grada

    Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation - whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies -…

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    Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future

    Cormac O Grada

    Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the…

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    Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce: A Socioeconomic History

    Cormac O Grada

    Tells the real story of how Jewish Ireland - and Dublin’s Little Jerusalem in particular - made ends meet from the 1870s, when the first Lithuanian Jewish immigrants landed in…

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    Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future

    Cormac O Grada

    Famines are becoming smaller and rarer, but optimism about the possibility of a famine-free future must be tempered by the threat of global warming. That is just one of the…

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    Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays

    Cormac O Grada

    Discussing the topics associated with Ireland’s Great Famine of 1846-52, this title contains essays that include: trends in living standards before the famine; the impact on landlords; the characteristics of…

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    Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays

    Cormac O Grada

    Discussing the topics associated with Ireland’s Great Famine of 1846-52, this title contains essays that include: trends in living standards before the famine; the impact on landlords; the characteristics of…

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    Refiguring Ireland: Essays in Honour of L.M. Cullen

    This collection of essays has been specially commissioned in order to mark the quite exceptional contribution that Louis Cullen has made to historical studies in Ireland and abroad over the…

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    Famine in European History

    The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies…

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    Famine Demography: Perspectives from the Past and Present

    This book deals with famine demography. It tries to answer questions such as: To what extent did famines control human population growth in the past? Who dies most in famines…

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    Famine in European History

    The first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages to present. It compares the characteristics, consequences and causes of famine in regional case studies…

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    Tears from Iron: Cultural Responses to Famine in Nineteenth-Century China

    Kathryn Edgerton-Tarpley

    The massive drought/famine that killed at least ten million people in north China during the late 1870s remains one of China’s most severe disasters and provides a window through which…

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    When the Potato Failed: Causes and Effects of the ‘Last’ European Subsistence Crisis, 1845-1850

    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. Two events, the Great…

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    Ireland: A New Economic History 1780-1939

    Cormac O Grada (Associate Professor of Economic History, Associate Professor of Economic History, University College, Dublin)

    Ireland: A New Economic History offers a fresh, comprehensive economic history of Ireland between 1780 and 1939. Its methodology is mould-breaking, and it is unparalleled in its broad scope and…

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