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1	The Witch's Trinity more books like this by Erika Mailman add to wishlist In 1507, a friar has arrived in Tierkinddorf, a remote German village, that has been suffering a famine. The friar promises to restore the village's prosperity by identifying the witch who has brought God's anger upon the town, in this work that illuminates a dark period of history. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.95! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine more books like this by Robert Conquest add to wishlist The first full history of one of the most horrendous human tragedies of the 20th century, The Harvest of Sorrow examines the atrocities inflicted on the Russian peasantry by the Soviet Communist party between 1929 and 1933. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.39! \| first editions \| SVS
3	My Dream of You more books like this by Nuala O'Faolain add to wishlist Kathleen is 50, lonely, unfulfilled, and tired of her life as a travel writer. Impulsively, she returns to her native Ireland to write about a legendary mid-19th-century romance between an Englishwoman and her stable hand. The project brings to life much of her own past, and that of Ireland, and forces her to reevaluate her life and heritage. A ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famines and the Making of the Third World more books like this by Mike Davis add to wishlist In this study of capitalism and ecology, a renowned urban historian examines the environmental causes of a widespread drought and subsequent famine in Africa, India, and China in the last quarter of the 19th century--and the political decisions that failed to bring relief to the nations in distress. see all copies from $9.00! new only from $13.76! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Paddy's Lament: Ireland 1846-1847 Prelude to Hatred more books like this by Thomas Michael Gallagher add to wishlist A shocking account of the great famine in Ireland, which sheds light on a bitter hatred for England that continues there today. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
6	Hungry Ghosts: Mao's Secret Famine more books like this by Jasper Becker add to wishlist Combining years of interviews, extensive research, and painstaking detective work, a journalist exposes the horrible result of Mao Zedong's attempted utopian engineering in China between 1958 and 1962, uncovering a bloody trail of terror, cannibalism, torture, and murder. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Nory Ryan's Song more books like this by Patricia Reilly Giff add to wishlist As they struggle to stay alive through the Great Potato Famine in Ireland, the three young Ryan sisters fight to keep their family together. Since their mother passed away many years ago and their father had to go to sea, they must rely on each another to survive. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
8	Irish famine more books like this by Peter Gray add to wishlist This pocket-sized text from the "New Horizons" series examines the Irish famine of 1845-1850, during which over one million of the Irish population died in a crop failure unprecedented in the history of modern Europe. Dependency on the potato as the main source of food brought widespread starvation and disease throughout Ireland and was followed ... see all copies from $8.35! new only from $8.35! \| first editions
9	This Great Calamity: The Irish Famine 1845-1852 more books like this by Dr. Christine Kinealy add to wishlist The Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the most decisive event in the history of modern Ireland. In a country of eight million people, the Famine caused the death of approximately one million, forced a similar number to emigrate, and reduced the Irish population to just over one million by the beginning of the 20th century. With fascinating insight, Dr. ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.95! \| first editions
10	Ireland since the famine more books like this by F. S. L. Lyons add to wishlist see all copies from $2.16! new only from $18.00! \| first editions
11 view cover	Fourth Horseman more books like this by Andrew Nikiforuk add to wishlist The author shows how feeble mankind's attempts to subdue the "super organism" of bacterial life has been. He reviews the great levelers: malaria, leprosy, the Black Death, the plague, syphilis, small pox, tuberculosis, flu and Aids. The author puts forward the controversial view that conquering HIV does not necessarily mean the conquering of Aids ... see all copies from $2.49! new only from $19.96! \| first editions
12 view cover	Hungering for America: Italian, Irish, and Jewish Foodways in the Age of Migration more books like this by Professor Hasia R Diner add to wishlist Hasia Diner sees immigration to America by the Italians, the Irish, and the Eastern European Jews as primarily a quest for good food and plenty of it. Nominated for a 2002 James Beard Award. see all copies from $4.99! new only from $17.12! \| SVS
13 view cover	A Death-Dealing Famine: The Great Hunger in Ireland more books like this by Dr. Christine Kinealy add to wishlist The great Irish Famine of 1845-52 was the last major famine in Europe, yet is occurred at a time when Ireland was still joined by Act of Union to Britain, then the wealthiest country in the world. The Famine traumatized the Irish nation for many decades: the population declined from eight million in 1841 to only four million in 1901. Ireland is ... see all copies from $3.06! new only from $9.70! \| signed copies
14	Hunger as a factor in human affairs more books like this by Pitirim A. Sorokin add to wishlist see all copies from $11.00! first editions
15 view cover	Heathcliff and the Great Hunger: Studies in Irish Culture more books like this by Terry Eagleton add to wishlist "Heathcliff and the Great Hunger" examines Irish culture from Swift to Joyce, in the light of the tragic history that conditioned it. Opening with a brilliant study of Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" in the context of the Irish famine, Eagleton challenges the contours of traditional Irish literary and social criticism and intervenes powerfully in ... see all copies from $14.35! new only from $24.00! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	The Great famine : studies in Irish history 1845-52 more books like this by R. Dudley Edwards, T. Desmond Williams add to wishlist Published in 1957 and long out of print, it was the first detailed modern study of the disaster. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $27.87! \| first editions \| SVS
17	The great hunger : Ireland 1845-1849 more books like this by Cecil Woodham-Smith add to wishlist History book showing the effects of the Irish potato famine on Ireland, USA and England. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $6.18! \| first editions \| SVS
18	The Potato Eaters more books like this by Karen Branson add to wishlist A family attempts to withstand the hardships brought about by a blight, which strikes Ireland in the 1840's, ruining potato crops. see all copies from $4.00! first editions
19 view cover	Famine: A Short History more books like this by Cormac O Grada add to wishlist Famine remains one of the worst calamities that can befall a society. Mass starvation - whether it is inflicted by drought or engineered by misguided or genocidal economic policies - devastates families, weakens the social fabric, and undermines political stability. Cormac O Grada, the acclaimed author who chronicled the tragic Irish famine in ... see all copies from $11.71! new only from $20.52! \| SVS
20	To the Golden Door: The Story of the Irish in Ireland and America more books like this by George W Potter add to wishlist see all copies from $7.99! first editions
21	The fourth horseman : a short history of epidemics, plagues, famine, and other scourges more books like this by Andrew Nikiforuk add to wishlist see all copies from $17.00! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Hunger and Public Action more books like this by Jean Dreze, Professor Amartya K Sen add to wishlist This study was well-received and widely discussed when it appeared in hardback in 1990. It is devoted to analysis of the enduring problem of hunger in the modern world, and of the role that public action can play in countering it. The book is divided into four parts. The first attempts to provide a coherent perspective on the complex nutritional, ... see all copies from $4.46! new only from $15.40! \| SVS
23	The Politics of Environmental Control in Northeastern Tanzania, 1840-1940 more books like this by James L. Giblin add to wishlist see all copies from $4.00! new only from $4.00! \| first editions
24	Seeds of Famine: Ecological Destruction and the Development Dilemma in the West African Sahel more books like this by Richard Franke, Barbara Chasin add to wishlist see all copies from $8.00! first editions
25 view cover	Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory more books like this by Cormac O Grada add to wishlist Here, Ireland's premier economic historian and one of the leading authorities on the Great Irish Famine examines the most lethal natural disaster to strike Europe in the nineteenth century. Between the mid-eighteenth and early-nineteenth centuries, the food source that we still call the Irish potato had allowed the fastest population growth in the ... see all copies from $2.91! new only from $24.95! \| first editions \| SVS

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