McLean, Stuart

The Event and its terrors Ireland, famine, modernity Stuart McLean - X, 227 S 24 cm - Cultural memory in the present .

Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis in anthropology, Columbia University, 1999 Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-218) and index

Writing after the Event -- This national disaster -- An Irish journey -- The most difficult people in the world -- Wild hunger -- In the theater of death -- Haunted -- Hungry ghosts and hungry women -- The coming Event (before and after)

Writing after the Event -- This national disaster -- An Irish journey -- The most difficult people in the world -- Wild hunger -- In the theater of death -- Haunted -- Hungry ghosts and hungry women -- The coming Event (before and after)

0804744408 pbk. 0804744394 cloth


Famines--History--Historiography--Ireland--19th century
Historiography--Ireland


Ireland--History--Historiography--Famine, 1845-1852

DA950.7

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