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Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse
The Great Famine (1845-1852) is a watershed in Irish history. With one million dead and just as many forced to flee hunger, starvation, and disease, Irelands 'Great Hunger' is among the worst famines in human history. In 2006, a mass burial ground containing the skeletal remains of near 1,...
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| Document Type: | Online Resource Book |
| Language: | English |
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Gainesville
: University Press of Florida
, Mai 2016
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| Series: | Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
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| Online Access: | http://proxy.fid-lizenzen.de/han/upso-ebooks-altertum/dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9780813061177.001.0001 |
| Author Notes: | Jonny Geber |
| E-Book Packages: | Oxford University Press : Florida Scholarship Online / Archaeology Collection |
Table of Contents:
- Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine"An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny
- A life endured in poverty: a social bioarchaeology of the "deserving poor"
- Institutionalization as the last resort: famine diseases, mortality, and medical interventions
- The bioarchaeology of the human experience of famine and disaster: shedding new light on the
- Realities of the great Irish famine.
