Ireland before and after the famine : explorations in economic history, 1800-1925

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Ireland before and after the famine : explorations in economic history, 1800-1925

Cormac Ó Gráda

Manchester University Press , Distributed exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press, c1993

2nd ed

  • : hbk
  • : pbk

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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巻冊次

: hbk ISBN 9780719040344

内容説明

This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987. This updated edition aims to go even further in disputing whether this pivotal period in Irish history really was an inevitable disaster and whether Ireland was the classic "Malthusian country". The author stresses the Irish ability to cope with harvest failure before 1845 and looks at the very real advances in the economy before the Great Famine that suggest that had the potato famine been delayed for a few decades, the economy would have been in a stronger position to withstand the harvest failures. Without neglecting the poverty and injustice of the pre-Famine economic regime, this book points to positive developments such as demographic adjustment, economic integration, emigration and improvements in agriculture and communications. The author argues that these features were already changing Ireland and could have gradually lifted it out of the morass.

目次

  • Poverty and progress - the pre-famine economy
  • agriculture before and after the famine (new appendix)
  • the famine - incidence and ideology (new appendix)
  • of bullocks and men - agricultural change after the famine
  • inheritance, emigration and fertility (new material on the Irish fertility transition before World War I).
巻冊次

: pbk ISBN 9780719040351

内容説明

This edition of Cormac O'Grada's study expands upon his central arguments about the agricultural and demographic developments surrounding the Great Irish Famine. It provides new statistical information, new appendices and integrated responses to the new research and writing on the subject that has appeared since the publication of the first edition in 1987. This updated edition aims to go even further in disputing whether this pivotal period in Irish history really was an inevitable disaster and whether Ireland was the classic "Malthusian country". The author stresses the Irish ability to cope with harvest failure before 1845 and looks at the very real advances in the economy before the Great Famine that suggest that had the potato famine been delayed for a few decades, the economy would have been in a stronger position to withstand the harvest failures. Without neglecting the poverty and injustice of the pre-Famine economic regime, this book points to positive developments such as demographic adjustment, economic integration, emigration and improvements in agriculture and communications. The author argues that these features were already changing Ireland and could have gradually lifted it out of the morass.

目次

  • Poverty and progress - the pre-Famine economy
  • agriculture before and after the Famine (new appendix)
  • the Famine - incidence and ideology (new appendix)
  • of bullocks and men - agricultural change after the Famine
  • inheritance, emigration and fertility (new material on the Irish fertility transition before World War I).

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