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The Graves are Walking (Paperback, Main)
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The Graves are Walking (Paperback, Main)
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List price R408
Loot Price R317
Discovery Miles 3 170
You Save R91 (22%)
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The Irish famine that began in 1845 was one of the nineteenth
century's greatest disasters. By its end, the island's population
of eight million had shrunk by a third through starvation, disease
and emigration. This is a brilliant, compassionate retelling of
that awful story for a new generation - the first account for the
general reader for many years and a triumphant example of narrative
non-fiction at its best. The immediate cause of the famine was a
bacterial infection of the potato crop on which too many the Irish
poor depended. What turned a natural disaster into a human disaster
was the determination of senior British officials to use relief
policy as an instrument of nation-building in their oldest and most
recalcitrant colony. Well-meaning civil servants were eager to
modernise Irish agriculture and to improve the Irish moral
character, which was utterly lacking in the virtues of the new age
of triumphant capitalism. The result was a relief programme more
concerned with fostering change than of saving lives. This is
history that resonates powerfully with our own times.
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