This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52
by Christine Kinealy (1956- )
- Used
- Near Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 1570980349
- ISBN 13
- 9781570980343
- Seller
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Fort Worth, Texas, United States
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About This Item
xxii+450 pages with map, plates, illustrations, appendix, bibliography and index. Royal octavo (9 1/4" x 6 1/4") bound in original publisher's dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine in original pictorial jacket. First American edition.
The Great Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, while a similar number were forced to emigrate. The Irish population fell to just over four million by the beginning of the twentieth century.
Condition: Near fine in a fine jacket.
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- Bookseller
- The Book Collector ABAA, ILAB, TBA (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- H0723
- Title
- This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-52
- Author
- Christine Kinealy (1956- )
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 1570980349
- ISBN 13
- 9781570980343
- Publisher
- Roberts Rinehart Publishers
- Place of Publication
- Boulder
- Date Published
- 1995
- Pages
- xxii+450 pages with map, plates, illustrations, appendix, bibliography and index
- Size
- Royal octavo
- Keywords
- Ireland
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- History;
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