The graves are walking : the great famine and the saga of the Irish people /

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Author / Creator:Kelly, John, 1945-
Edition:1st ed.
Imprint:New York : Henry Holt and Co., 2012.
Description:xii, 397 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/8929430
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Varying Form of Title:Great famine and the saga of the Irish people
ISBN:9780805091847
080509184X
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:This compelling new look at one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--provides fresh material and analysis on the role that nineteenth-century evangelical Protestantism played in shaping British policies and on Britain's attempt to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character.