The Graves Are Walking: The Great Famine and the Saga of the Irish People
A magisterial account of one of the worst disasters to strike humankind--the Great Irish Potato Famine--conveyed as lyrical narrative history from the acclaimed author of The Great MortalityIn this masterful, comprehensive account of the Irish Potato Famine, delivered with novelistic flair, Kelly gives us not only the startling facts of this disaster--one of the worst to strike mankind, killing twice as many lives as the American Civil War--but examines the intersection of political greed, bacterial infection, religious intolerance, and racism that made it possible. Kelly brings new material to his analysis of relevant political factors durin…
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- ISBN: 978-1-250-03217-1
- EAN: 9781250032171
- Produktnummer: 13633376
- Verlag: Picador
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 397 S.
- Masse: H20.8 cm x B13.6 cm x D3.2 cm 378 g
- Gewicht: 378
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