After the Famine: Irish Agriculture, 1850 1914

by Michael Edward Turner

Book Overview

After the Famine examines Irish agriculture in the wake of the disastrous famine of the 1840s. Michael Turner's detailed study is in three parts: he analyzes changing agricultural structures in terms of land use and peasant occupancy; he estimates the annual value of Irish output; he assesses Irish agricultural performance in terms of several measures of productivity. These analyses question prevailing orthodoxies about income distribution, and make...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521553881
• ISBN13: 9780521553889
• Release Date: March 1996
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.32 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.2"