Rot: A History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan

Rot: A History of the Irish Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan

336 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative sad slow-paced
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In the 1800s, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long-held assumptions about political economy and 'civilisation', threatening disorder in Britain. Ireland was a laboratory fo...

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