Human encumbrances : political violence and the Great Irish Famine /
Nally, David P.
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press,
c2011.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: Colonial biopolitics and the functions of famine -- Fatal circumstances : colonialism and the origins of vulnerability to famine -- Defining civility : on the poverty of others -- Engineering civility : colonial welfare and Irish pauper management -- Imposing civility : the administration of hunger -- The "ungoverned millions" : Thomas Carlyle and the Irish question -- The angel of progress : visionary geographies and disaster triage.
Famines
Poverty
Political violence
Social control