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

By:

Geber, Jonny [author.]

Contributor(s):

Larsen, Clark Spencer [author of introduction, etc.]

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human pastPublisher: Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780813055633
0813055636
9780813051475
0813051479

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Victims of Ireland's great famineDDC classification:

941.5081 23

LOC classification:

DA950.7 .G43 2015eb

NLM classification:

2015 K-490
DA 950.7

Other classification:

15.64
7,25

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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.

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.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.