Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / / Jonny Geber ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen

• Autore: Geber Jonny
• Pubblicazione: Gainesville, Florida : , : University Press of Florida, , 2015; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (313 p.)
• Disciplina: 941.5081
• Soggetto topico: Famines - Ireland - Kilkenny (County) - History - 19th century; Mass burials - Ireland - Kilkenny (County) - History - 19th century; Workhouses - Ireland - History - 19th century; Starvation - History - 19th century; Poor - Ireland - History - 19th century
• Soggetto geografico: Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): LarsenClark Spencer
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Setting the stage for a bioarchaeology of the great Irish famine -- "An entire nation of paupers": contextualizing poverty and famine in mid-nineteenth-century Ireland and Kilkenny -- A life endured in poverty: a social bioarchaeology of the "deserving poor" -- Institutionalization as the last resort: famine diseases, mortality, and medical interventions -- The bioarchaeology of the human experience of famine and disaster: shedding new light on the -- Realities of the great Irish famine.
• Sommario/riassunto: Geber uses the analysis of the remains from the mass burial ground within the former union workhouse in Kilkenny found in 2005 to address central questions regarding health conditions at the workhouse and to shed new light on the famine.
• Titolo autorizzato: Victims of Ireland's great famine
• ISBN: 0-8130-5147-9; 0-8130-5563-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910461687903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Bioarchaeological Interpretations of the Human Past