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Jewish Ireland in the Age of Joyce
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 …
Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future
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 …
Famine Demography
This book deals with the important subject of famine demography. It contains case studies of the demography of historical and more recent famines in locations as far apart as …
Famine in European History
This is the first systematic study of famine in all parts of Europe from the Middle Ages until the present. In case studies ranging from Scandinavia and Italy to Ireland and …
Visitation of God
The dramatic failure of the potato crop in mid-19th century Europe caused widespread hunger and distress. In Ireland the impact was probably the greatest, where a million people …
Tears from Iron
This multi-layered history of a horrific famine that took place in late-nineteenth-century China focuses on cultural responses to trauma. The massive drought/famine that killed at …