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Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine
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A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland’s most infamous disaster
“Vigorous and engaging.”—Fintan O’Toole, The New Yorker
In 1845, European potato fields were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million dead and forcing millions more to emigrate. In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers a new account of the Great Famine, showing how...
“Vigorous and engaging.”—Fintan O’Toole, The New Yorker
In 1845, European potato fields were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland that the blight’s devastation reached apocalyptic levels, leaving more than a million dead and forcing millions more to emigrate. In Rot, historian Padraic X. Scanlan offers a new account of the Great Famine, showing how...
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