# The Great Hunger

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- Autores: [Cecil Woodham-Smith](https://www.archivodelibros.es/cecil-woodham-smith)
- Idioma: en_GB
- Publicación: 1991-05-30

## Descripción

The Irish potato famine of the 1840s, perhaps the most appalling event of the Victorian era, killed over a million people and drove as many more to emigrate to America. It may not have been the result of deliberate government policy, yet British ‘obtuseness, short-sightedness and ignorance’ – and stubborn commitment to laissez-faire ‘solutions’ – largely caused the disaster and prevented any serious efforts to relieve suffering. The continuing impact on Anglo-Irish relations was incalculable, the immediate human cost almost inconceivable. In this vivid and disturbing book Cecil Woodham-Smith provides the definitive account. ‘A moving and terrible book. It combines great literary power with great learning. It explains much in modern Ireland – and in modern America’ D. W. Brogan.

## Ediciones

### The Great Hunger

- Editorial: Penguin
- ISBN: 978-01-4014-515-1
- Páginas: 528
- Publicación: 1991-05-30
- Idioma: en_GB