The Event and its terrors
Subtitle: Ireland, famine, modernity
By: Stuart McLean.
Series: Cultural memory in the present
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
Subjects: Famines -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Historiography; Historiography -- Ireland; Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852 -- Historiography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [199]-218) and index.
Based on the author's Ph.D. thesis in anthropology, Columbia University, 1999.
Table of contents: title: Writing after the Event; title: This national disaster; title: An Irish journey; title: The most difficult people in the world; title: Wild hunger; title: In the theater of death; title: Haunted; title: Hungry ghosts and hungry women; title: The coming Event (before and after).