Why is Ireland poor and discontented? A lecture, etc
Author : Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
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Page : 30 pages
File Size : 46,97 MB
Release : 1870
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Author : Francis M. JENNINGS
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Page : 44 pages
File Size : 21,38 MB
Release : 1866
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Author : William Smith O'Brien
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Page : 64 pages
File Size : 47,9 MB
Release : 1843
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Author : John Francis Scanlan
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Page : 204 pages
File Size : 16,39 MB
Release : 1880
Category : Industries
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Author : Joel Mokyr
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 34,36 MB
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1136599592
Technical changes in the first half of the nineteenth century led to unprecedented economic growth and capital formation throughout Western Europe; and yet Ireland hardly participated in this process at all. While the Northern Atlantic Economy prospered, the Great Irish Famine of 1845–50 killed a million and a half people and caused hundreds of thousands to flee the country. Why the Irish economy failed to grow, and ‘why Ireland starved’ remains an unresolved riddle of economic history. Professor Mokyr maintains that the ‘Hungry Forties’ were caused by the overall underdevelopment of the economy during the decades which preceded the famine. In Why Ireland Starved he tests various hypotheses that have been put forward to account for this backwardness. He dismisses widespread arguments that Irish poverty can be explained in terms of over-population, an evil land system or malicious exploitation by the British. Instead, he argues that the causes have to be sought in the low productivity of labor and the insufficient formation of physical capital – results of the peculiar political and social structure of Ireland, continuous conflicts between landlords and tenants, and the rigidity of Irish economic institutions. Mokyr’s methodology is rigorous and quantitative, in the tradition of the New Economic History. It sets out to test hypotheses about the causal connections between economic and non-economic phenomena. Irish history is often heavily coloured by political convictions: of Dutch-Jewish origin, trained in Israel and working in the United States. Mokyr brings to this controversial field not only wide research experience but also impartiality and scientific objectivity. The book is primarily aimed at numerate economic historians, historical demographers, economists specializing in agricultural economics and economic development and specialists in Irish and British nineteenth-century history. The text is, nonetheless, free of technical jargon, with the more complex material relegated to appendixes. Mokyr’s line of reasoning is transparent and has been easily accessible and useful to readers without graduate training in economic theory and econometrics since ists first publication in 1983.
Author : Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 277 pages
File Size : 46,73 MB
Release : 1994-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 0674254392
What Du Bois noted has gone largely unstudied until now. In this book, Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham gives us our first full account of the crucial role of black women in making the church a powerful institution for social and political change in the black community. Between 1880 and 1920, the black church served as the most effective vehicle by which men and women alike, pushed down by racism and poverty, regrouped and rallied against emotional and physical defeat. Focusing on the National Baptist Convention, the largest religious movement among black Americans, Higginbotham shows us how women were largely responsible for making the church a force for self-help in the black community. In her account, we see how the efforts of women enabled the church to build schools, provide food and clothing to the poor, and offer a host of social welfare services. And we observe the challenges of black women to patriarchal theology. Class, race, and gender dynamics continually interact in Higginbotham’s nuanced history. She depicts the cooperation, tension, and negotiation that characterized the relationship between men and women church leaders as well as the interaction of southern black and northern white women’s groups. Higginbotham’s history is at once tough-minded and engaging. It portrays the lives of individuals within this movement as lucidly as it delineates feminist thinking and racial politics. She addresses the role of black Baptist women in contesting racism and sexism through a “politics of respectability” and in demanding civil rights, voting rights, equal employment, and educational opportunities. Righteous Discontent finally assigns women their rightful place in the story of political and social activism in the black church. It is central to an understanding of African American social and cultural life and a critical chapter in the history of religion in America.
Author : James Redpath
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Page : 148 pages
File Size : 50,3 MB
Release : 1881
Category : Ireland
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Author : F. C
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Page : 854 pages
File Size : 36,68 MB
Release : 1846
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Author : John Wiggins
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Page : 320 pages
File Size : 24,76 MB
Release : 1844
Category : Ireland
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Author : Miami University (Oxford, Ohio)
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Page : 92 pages
File Size : 46,2 MB
Release : 1920
Category : Catalogs, College
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