The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine McMahon Cian T.
The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine McMahon Cian T. Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new…
Specifikacia The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine McMahon Cian T.
The Coffin Ship: Life and Death at Sea during the Great Irish Famine McMahon Cian T.
Honorable Mention, Theodore Saloutos Book Award, given by the Immigration and Ethnic History SocietyA vivid, new portrait of Irish migration through the letters and diaries of those who fled their homeland during the Great FamineThe standard story of the exodus during Ireland's Great Famine is one of tired clichs, half-truths, and dry statistics. McMahon offers a vibrant, fresh perspective on an oft-ignored but vital component of the migration experience: the journey itself.Between 1845 and 1855, over two million people fled Ireland to escape the Great Famine and begin new lives abroad. In The Coffin Ship, a groundbreaking work of transnational history, Cian T.
The crews were brutal, the captains were heartless, and the weather was The so-called "coffin ships" they embarked on have since become infamous icons of nineteenth-century migration.
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