Eating People Is Wrong, and Other Essays on Famine, Its Past, and Its Future, Ao Graada Cormac, Grada Cormac O., O. Grada Cormac

Автор: O Grada, Cormac.
Название: Ireland`s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Essays
ISBN: 1904558577 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781904558576
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Описание: These essays by Ireland's leading economic historian range widely over topics associated with the Ireland's Great Famine of 1846-52. The famine was the defining event of nineteenth-century Irish history, and nineteenth-century Europe's greatest natural disaster, killing about one million people and prompting many hundreds of thousands more to emigrate. The subjects covered here include: trends in living standards before the famine; the impact of the crisis on landlords; the characteristics of famine mortality; the market for potatoes during the 1840s; the role of migration as disaster relief; the New York Irish in the wake of the famine; the famine in folklore and memory, and in comparative perspective; and the historiography of the famine in Ireland. Ireland's Great Famine includes four previously unpublished essays, together with others assembled from a wide range of publications in different fields. Some have been co-authored by other leading scholars.Taken together, the essays give a full account of the famine, its effects, what was and was not done to alleviate it, how it compares with other (especially modern third world) famines, and how successive scholars have tackled these matters. This will become a standard reference in both Irish history and the international field of famine studies. The essays include collaborations with Andres Eiriksson, Timothy Guinnane, Joel Mokyr and Kevin O'Rourke.

Автор: Milevsky Moshe A.
Название: King William`s Tontine: Why the Retirement Annuity of the Future Should Resemble Its Past
ISBN: 1107430755 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781107430754
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: The book reviews the finance, economics, and history of tontines, through the story of the first tontine in England in 1693, which was intended to finance the war against France. Although tontines eventually disappeared from the financial landscape, the author argues that they should be resurrected in the twenty-first century.