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The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork - The Rural Economy and the Land Question (Hardcover)
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The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork - The Rural Economy and the Land Question (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Library Editions: Rural History
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First published in 1975. Using estate records, local newspapers and
parliamentary papers, this book focuses upon two central and
interrelated subjects - the rural economy and the land question -
from the perspective of Cork, Ireland's southernmost country. The
author examines the chief responses of Cork landlords, tenant
farmers and labourers to the enormous difficulties besetting them
after 1815. He shows how the great famine of the late 1840s was in
many ways an economic and social watershed because it rapidly
accelerated certain previous trends and reversed the direction of
others. He also rejects the conventional view of the land war of
the 1880s, arguing that in Cork it was essentially a 'revolution of
rising expectations', in which tenant farmers struggled to preserve
their substantial material gains since 1850 by using the weapons of
'agrarian trade unionism', civil disobedience and unprecedented
violence. This title will be of interest to students of rural
history and historical geography.
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