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Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century (4vols), Multiple-component retail product Book

Hunger and Famine in the Long Nineteenth Century (4vols) Multiple-component retail product

Edited by Gail Turley Houston

Part of the Routledge Historical Resources series

Multiple-component retail product

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In the age of empire, Victorians and Romantics over the long 19th century faced issues of governance that no other society had faced on such a massive level, causing socio-political questions that had to be addressed based on sheer necessity but little governmental experience.

In an age in which there was a decade referred to as "the Hungry Forties," and in which the Great Famine in Ireland occurs as well, there are high rates of poverty across the whole century in Britain and its colonies.

At the same time that hunger and famine were intractable issues, irresolvable across nineteenth-century Britain, socio-political entities had little stomach for solving the problem and few technocrats had economic answers based on real world experience.

This four-volume collection of primary sources examine hunger and famine in Britain and its empire across the long nineteenth century.

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