This long awaited book is a study of the making of Britain ? ? ? -s Irish policy in the period immediately preceding and during the Great Famine of 1845 ? ? ? 50. It looks particularly at interpretations of and response to the ? ? ? land question ? ? ? -, in the context of debates on reconstruction of Irish rural society, the relief of poverty, and the interventionist role of the state. Political agitation increasingly focused attention on Irish...