Human encumbrances : political violence and the Great Irish Famine /
The history of the Great Irish Famine has been mired in debate over the level of culpability of the British government. Most scholars reject the extreme nationalist charge of genocide, but beyond that there is little consensus. Author David P. Nally argues for a nuanced understanding of "famine...
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Notre Dame, Ind. :
University of Notre Dame Press,
2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: Colonial biopolitics and the functions of famine
- Fatal circumstances : colonialism and the origins of vulnerability to famine
- Defining civility : on the poverty of others
- Engineering civility : colonial welfare and Irish pauper management
- Imposing civility : the administration of hunger
- The "ungoverned millions" : Thomas Carlyle and the Irish question
- The angel of progress : visionary geographies and disaster triage.