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

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan

352 pages first pub 2025 (view editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative sad slow-paced
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A "vigorous and engaging" (Fintan O'Toole, New Yorker) new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland's most infamous disaster In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel...

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