Visual Representations of the Great Famine, 1845-2010
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Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from Ireland, 1845-1850
10740 words This is an abbreviated version of a paper given at a conference on famine demography at Les Treilles, France, 25-30 May 1999. The longer version is available as Mokyr and Ó Gráda, 1999. We are grateful to co-participants for their comments.
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عنوان ژورنال: Revue française de civilisation britannique
سال: 2014
ISSN: 0248-9015,2429-4373
DOI: 10.4000/rfcb.279