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Author: Scotland. Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor
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Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Scotland. Board of Supervision for the Relief of the Poor
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Category : Poor
Languages : en
Pages : 246
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 254
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Languages : en
Pages : 226
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Author: Leone Levi
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 512
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Author: Great Britain House of Commons
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Languages : en
Pages : 1124
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Author: Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 798
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Category : Legislation
Languages : en
Pages : 572
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Author: James Hunter
Publisher: Birlinn
ISBN: 1788852311
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 386
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The author of On the Other Side of Sorrow gives a detailed account of the causes and effects of the Scottish potato famine that began in 1846. When Scotland’s 1846 potato crop was wiped out by blight, the country was plunged into crisis. In the Hebrides and the West Highlands, a huge relief effort came too late to prevent starvation and death. Farther east, meanwhile, towns and villages from Aberdeen to Wick and Thurso protested the cost of the oatmeal that replaced potatoes as the people’s basic foodstuff. Oatmeal’s soaring price was blamed on the export of grain by farmers and landlords cashing in on even higher prices elsewhere. As a bitter winter gripped and families feared a repeat of the calamitous famine then ravaging Ireland, grain carts were seized, ships boarded, harbors blockaded, a jail forced open, and the military confronted. The army fired on one set of rioters. Savage sentences were imposed on others. But crowds of thousands also gained key concessions. Above all they won cheaper food. Those dramatic events have long been ignored or forgotten. Now, in James Hunter, they have their historian. The story he tells is, by turns, moving, anger-making, and inspiring. In an era of food banks and growing poverty, it is also very timely. Praise for Insurrection “Hunter never forgets that history is first of all narrative—and this book is rich in stories—or that is subject is the experience of individual men and women, creatures of flesh and blood, not abstractions. Insurrection is fascinating reading, both painful and uplifting.” —Allan Massie, the Scotsman (UK)
