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Victims of Ireland's great famine : the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.
- Title
- Victims of Ireland's great famine : 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
- xxiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.
- 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
- Project Muse UPCC books.
- Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past
- Subject
- Famine (Ireland : 1845-1852)
- 1800 - 1899
- Famines > Kilkenny (County) > History > 19th century
- Mass burials > Kilkenny (County) > History > 19th century
- Workhouses > Ireland > History > 19th century
- Starvation > History > 19th century
- Poor > Ireland > History > 19th century
- Starvation > history
- Poverty > history
- Health Status
- Working Poor > history
- Almshouses > history
- Archaeology > methods
- History, 19th Century
- Famines
- Mass burials
- Poor
- Starvation
- Workhouses
- Ireland > History > Famine, 1845-1852
- Ireland
- Ireland > Kilkenny (County)
- Genre/Form
- History
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-271) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9780813061177
- 0813061172
- LCCN
- ^^2015019365
- 40025398470
- OCLC
- 904861699
- SCSB-10189639
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library