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Item Description:Editors' Introduction: "To Assert Even the Animal's Right of Existence" / Enda Delaney and Breandán Mac Suibhne -- "'Tis Hard to Argue Starvation into Quiet" : Protest and Resistance, 1846-47 / John Cunningham -- "The Tottering, Fluttering, Palpitating Mass" : Power and Hunger in Nineteenth Century Literary Responses to the Great Famine / Melissa Fegan -- Soup and Providence : Varieties of Protestantism and the Great Famine / David W. Miller -- Walking Backward to Heaven? : Edmond Ronayne's Pilgrimage in Famine Ireland and Gilded Age America / Kerby A. Miller and Ellen Skerrett, with Bridget Kelly -- The Great Famine, Land and the Making of the Graziers / David S. Jones -- Aspects of Agency : John Ross Mahon, Accommodation and Resistance on the Strokestown Estate, 1845-51 / Ciarán Reilly -- "Bastard Ribbonism" : The Molly Maguires, the Uneven Failure of Entitlement and the Politics of Post-Famine Adjustment / Breandán Mac Suibhne.
Electronic resource.
Physical Description:1 online resource.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781134757985 (electronic bk.)
1134757980 (electronic bk.)