Seeds of Revolution: The Culture and Politics of the Great Famine in the Irish Northwest
Author:   Joan Vincent
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
ISBN:  

9780312239961


Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 December 2002
Format:   Hardback
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Seeds of Revolution: The Culture and Politics of the Great Famine in the Irish Northwest


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Joan Vincent provides a micro-historical study and narrative ethnography of the Irish famine in County Fermanagh. Viewing the famine as a man-made process, and exploring the voices of the residents of Fermanagh as they attempt to understand and address the suffering around them, Vincent emphasizes the creation of cultural knowledge about the faminization process and explores the interactions of local and national politics which structured the County experience of the famine and later political unrest. Throughout the book, Vincent emphasizes the gendered effects of the famine and provides us with a sensitive analysis of the cultural reaction to disruption and trauma.

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Author:   Joan Vincent
Publisher:   St Martin's Press
Imprint:   St Martin's Press
Dimensions:   Width: 13.80cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 21.60cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780312239961


ISBN 10:   0312239963
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   13 December 2002
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

Preface Introduction PART I: BEGINNINGS The Dialectics of Reform Moving Figures in a Shifting World Modernity and Distress Poor Law Impositions: Legislating Modernity The Crisis of November 1845 PART II: INTERVENTIONS Feeding the Hungry and Paying the Price Private Enterprise PART III: BLACK '47 'The Earth is Softened for the Grave' The Workhouse System under Siege The Medico-Moral Dilemma PART IV: SHALLOWS AND SILENCES Dangerous Supplements Poor Law Desolation Disillusion/Dissolution The Other Side of Silence PART V: THE GREY YEARS The Terror of the Possible (1848) Dublin Castle: The Poor Law under Siege Aftermath

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JOAN VINCENT is a noted political anthropologist and a pioneer in the development of historical ethnography and the anthropology of gender. She is Professor Emerita at Barnard College, Columbia University and Senior Fellow at the Research Institute for the Study of Man.

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