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Victims of Ireland's great famine the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse

Title
Victims of Ireland's great famine [electronic resource] : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.
Author
Geber, Jonny.
Publication
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

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Additional Authors
Larsen, Clark Spencer.
Description
1 online resource (xxiii, 282 pages) : illustrations, maps.
Summary
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.
Series Statement
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
Uniform Title
Victims of Ireland's great famine (Online)
Alternative Title
Victims of Ireland's great famine (Online)
Subject
  • 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
  • Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-271) and index.
Access (note)
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Contents
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.
LCCN
2015019365
OCLC
ssj0001556416
Author
Geber, Jonny.
Title
Victims of Ireland's great famine [electronic resource] : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.
Imprint
Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]
Series
Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-271) and index.
Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
Connect to:
Available from home with a valid library card
Available onsite at NYPL
Added Author
Larsen, Clark Spencer.
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