Famines in European economic history: the last great European famines reconsidered

List of figures …xi

List of maps …xii

List of tables …xiii

Notes on contributors …xiv

Famines in European economic history: introduction …1

DECLAN CURRAN, LUBOMYR LUCIUK AND ANDREW G. NEWBY

PART I

The Great Irish Famine [An Gorta Mór], 1845 to 1850 …17

1 From the 'haggart' to the Hudson: the Irish famine across many geographical scales …19

DECLAN CURRAN

2 Tracing 'the march of the enemy': regional and local experiences of the Irish famine …48

MARY KELLY

3 'The Great British Famine of 1845 to 1850'? Ireland, the UK and peripherality in famine relief and philanthropy …83

PETER GRAY

PART II

Finnish Famine [Suuret Nälkävuodet], 1867 to 1868 …97

4 Finland's 'famine years' of the 1860s: a nineteenth-century perspective …99

ANTTI HÄKKINEN AND HENRIK FORSBERG

5 Feeding the famine: social vulnerability and dislocation during the Finnish famine of the 1860s …124

MIIККA VOUTILAINEN

6 "The terrible visitation': famine in Finland and Ireland 1845 to 1868: towards an agenda for comparative Irish-Finnish famine studies …145

ANDREW G. NEWBY AND TIMO MYLLYNTAUS

PART III

Ukrainian Famine [Holodomor], 1932 to 1933 …167

7 The origins and course of the famine of 1932 to 1933 in Soviet Ukraine …171

BOHDAN KLID

8 Famine losses in Ukraine in 1932 to 1933 within the context of the Soviet Union …192

OMELIAN RUDNYTSKYI, NATALIIA LEVCHUK, OLEH WOLOWYNA AND PAVLO SHEVCHUK

9 The uses of hunger: Stalin's solution of the peasant and national questions in Soviet Ukraine, 1932 to 1933 …223

ANDREA GRAZIOSI

Index …261