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  • Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
    Cormac Ó Gráda
    New perspectives on the history of famine-and the possibility of a famine-free worldFamines 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 arguments that Cormac Ó Gráda, one of the world’s leading authorities on the history and economics of famine, develops in t...
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    43,32 €

  • Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce
    Cormac Ó Gráda
    James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world’s literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of the city’s bona fide Jewish community, where intermarriage with outsiders was rare and piety was pron...
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    43,02 €

  • Famine
    Cormac Ó Gráda
    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--devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac Ó Gráda, the acclaimed author who chronicled the tragic Irish famine in books like Black ’47 and Beyond, her...
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    42,91 €

  • Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce
    Cormac Ó Gráda
    James Joyce’s Leopold Bloom--the atheistic Everyman of Ulysses, son of a Hungarian Jewish father and an Irish Protestant mother--may have turned the world’s literary eyes on Dublin, but those who look to him for history should think again. He could hardly have been a product of the city’s bona fide Jewish community, where intermarriage with outsiders was rare and piety was pron...
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    97,39 €

  • Black ’47 and Beyond
    Cormac Ó Gráda
    Here Ireland’s premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the whole of Western Europe. As viv...
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    71,38 €

  • Ireland
    Cormac O. Grada / Cormac OGrada
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    83,54 €

  • The Great Irish Famine
    Cormac O. Grada / Cormac OGrada / Economic History Society
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    80,65 €

  • The Great Irish Famine
    Cormac O. Grada / Cormac OGrada / Economic History Society
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    38,95 €