Atlas of the Great Irish Famine
A scholarly atlas that maps the Irish Famine through geography, statistics, images, and historical commentary. It turns a vast historical catastrophe into a richly documented reference work.
Work Information
An atlas that maps the Great Irish Famine through history and data.
Using maps, images, and commentary, it traces the social and geographic impact of the Great Irish Famine and its lasting legacy.
Book Information
- Publisher
- NYU Press
- Published
- 2012-08-01
- Pages
- 728 pages
- Language
- 英語
- Size
- 24.13 x 5.08 x 30.48 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780814771488
- ISBN-10
- 0814771483
- Category
- 洋書/Education & Reference/Atlases & Maps/Atlases
Best Reference Books of 2012 presented by Library Journal The Great Irish Famine is the most pivotal event in modern Irish history, with implications that cannot be underestimated. Over a million people perished between 1845-1852, and well over a million others fled to other locales within Europe and America. By 1850, the Irish made up a quarter of the population in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Baltimore. The 2000 US census had 41 million people claim Irish ancestry, or one in five white Americans. Atlas of the Great Irish Famine (1845-52) considers how such a near total decimation of a country by natural causes could take place in industrialized, 19th century Europe and situates the Great Famine alongside other world famines for a more globally informed approach. The Atlas seeks to try and bear witness to the thousands and thousands of people who died and are buried in mass Famine pits or in fields and ditches, with little or nothing to remind us of their going. The centrality of the Famine workhouse as a place of destitution is also examined in depth. Likewise the atlas represents and documents the conditions and experiences of the many thousands who emigrated from Ireland in those desperate years, with case studies of famine emigrants in cities such as Liverpool, Glasgow, New York and Toronto. The Atlas places the devastating Irish Famine in greater historic context than has been attempted before, by including over 150 original maps of population decline, analysis and examples of poetry, contemporary art, written and oral accounts, numerous illustrations, and photography, all of which help to paint a fuller picture of the event and to trace its impact and legacy. In this comprehensive and stunningly illustrated volume, over fifty chapters on history, politics, geography, art, population, and folklore provide readers with a broad range of perspectives and insights into this event.
John Crowley is Lecturer in the Department of Geography, University College Cork. He is co-editor of Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, the Atlas of Cork City and co-author of The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry with John Sheehan. William J. Smyth is Emeritus Professor (and former Department Chair) of Geography at University College Cork. He is author of Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, co-editor of Common Ground: Essays on the Historical Geography of Ireland, and editor of the journal Irish Geography. Mike Murphy has been cartographer at the Department of Geography, University College Cork for over twenty-five years. He has worked on the Atlas of the Great Irish Famine, Atlas of Cork City (2005) and The Iveragh Peninsula: A Cultural Atlas of the Ring of Kerry (2009).
Reviews
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Very impressive tome, I'm itching to get into it!
After seeing this history book mentioned in our local newspaper, we purchased this history book as a present for dear dad. It felt ironic to be giving him such a heavy hardcover tome after he has taken so quickly to reading all his books on his kindle and reading his newspaper on his computer. As I sat to wrap it, I flipped through and realized how hard it was going to be to hand it over. There is so much compelling information there, I want to read these accounts and study these maps, and learn what the authors have gathered about the famine that caused such losses, and forced migrations of families such as ours (through Wales). From what I saw in those few minutes I had to peruse, the book looked well worth its cost. Certainly I will need to borrow the book from dear dad, because this well compiled wealth of true accounts implores me to spend several evenings diving in to learn the truth about the depth and breadth of the irish famine. I definitely would have loved to buy the title in electronic form, but then there wouldn't have been the same "impressive weight" which gives our sense of touch a measure of the importance and impact of the Great Irish Famine. As for how it was received - dear dad has long been fascinated by history and geography - and in the case of the Great Irish Famine, how the famine caused his ancestors living in Ireland to migrate to Wales before going on to migrate to the US. Am I repeating myself? Ah, well, the book looks very impressive, and glossing through it proves it is very impressive. So if you know you are passionate about history, this will be a welcome tome for you to immerse yourself into!
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une mine d'or
même si certains articles sont trop spécialisés (ceci dit, c'est bien ce que l'on attend d'un atlas), ce très gros livre apporte une vue complète et nuancée sur ce terrible aspect de l'histoire irlandaise
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Excellent book
Excellent book. Brilliant detail & illustrations. Covers the period very well. Great gift. Arrived quickly & excellent value for money
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Simply Stunning !
I have wanted this book ever since I saw it in Dublin Airport when coming back from visiting family in Ireland. I have always had a strong interest in Irish history and was looking at this with interest. All I can say is that this book is fantastic in it's scope and quality. It is full of enough statistics to keep anyone happy. The presentation is beautifully laid out with lots of fascinating material. The sheer quality of this book oozes out of every page and will take pride of place on my bookshelf, when not being read. This is definitely a must buy for anyone with an interest in Irish history.
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Big book packed with informaiton.
Amazing. Great addition to any library on Irish history.!
Related Literary Awards
- Irish Book Awards Edition 10 (2012) ・Excellence Award