Author: John Hamilton THOMPublisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 50
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The Claim of Ireland. A Sermon Delivered ... March 7, 1847, Etc
Author: John Hamilton THOMThe Claim of Ireland
Author: John Hamilton ThomPublisher:
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Category : Ireland
Languages : en
Pages : 43
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General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1044
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Humanitarianism in the Modern World
Author: Norbert GötzPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108493521
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
A fresh look at two centuries of humanitarian history through a moral economy approach focusing on appeals, allocation, and accounting.
The Graves Are Walking
Author: John KellyPublisher: Macmillan + ORM
ISBN: 0805095632
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
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 Mortality Deeply researched, compelling in its details, and startling in its conclusions about the appalling decisions behind a tragedy of epic proportions, John Kelly's retelling of the awful story of Ireland's great hunger will resonate today as history that speaks to our own times. It started in 1845 and before it was over more than one million men, women, and children would die and another two million would flee the country. Measured in terms of mortality, the Great Irish Potato Famine was the worst disaster in the nineteenth century--it claimed twice as many lives as the American Civil War. A perfect storm of bacterial infection, political greed, and religious intolerance sparked this catastrophe. But even more extraordinary than its scope were its political underpinnings, and TheGraves Are Walking provides fresh material and analysis on the role that Britain's nation-building policies played in exacerbating the devastation by attempting to use the famine to reshape Irish society and character. Religious dogma, anti-relief sentiment, and racial and political ideology combined to result in an almost inconceivable disaster of human suffering. This is ultimately a story of triumph over perceived destiny: for fifty million Americans of Irish heritage, the saga of a broken people fleeing crushing starvation and remaking themselves in a new land is an inspiring story of revival. Based on extensive research and written with novelistic flair, The Graves Are Walking draws a portrait that is both intimate and panoramic, that captures the drama of individual lives caught up in an unimaginable tragedy, while imparting a new understanding of the famine's causes and consequences.
The Memorial History of Hartford County, Connecticut, 1633-1884
Author: James Hammond TrumbullPublisher:
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Category : Hartford County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 726
Book Description
Genealogy of the Descendants of John Eliot, "apostle to the Indians," 1598-1905
Author: Wilimena Hannah Eliot EmersonPublisher:
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 414
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Beams of Light on Early Methodism in America
Author: Ezekiel CooperPublisher:
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Category : Methodism
Languages : en
Pages : 364
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General Catalogue of Printed Books to 1955
Author: British Museum. Dept. of Printed BooksPublisher:
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Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
Johnson's Univeral Cyclopædia
Author: Publisher:
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 880
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