title: Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (The Princeton Economic History of the Western World)
author:  Cormac  Grda 
description: <b>"Winner of the 2000 James S. Donnelly Sr. Prize for Best Book on Irish History or Social Studies"</b><br /><br /><b>"One of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 1999"</b><br /><br />"One of the book's great strengths is the attempt to place the Irish experience in the contexts of famines in other parts of the world and to compare it to other historical famines, an approach that enriches Irish and general famine studies alike. . . . <i>Black '47 and Beyond </i> is a substantial and often pioneering contribution to the ever-burgeoning field of Irish Famine studies." (<i>Times Literary Supplement</i>)<br /><br />"One of the most challenging, original, and readable accounts of the subject to have appeared in the last decade. It contains a fund of ideas and information for both experts and those with only the most general knowledge of the famine. . . . Highly recommended." (<i>Choice</i>)<br /><br />"At a stroke, Cormac  Grda's <i>Black '47 and Beyond</i> . . . Establishes itself as the definitive work on the famine. Indeed, it is hard to imagine a better study. . . . [It] is staggering in its thoroughness."<b>---Kevin Driscoll, <i>The Washington Times</i></b><br /><br />"Rigor and meticulousness may be found in <i>Black '47 and Beyond</i>.  Grda holds up to scrutiny each vexed aspect of the Famine and their previous interpretations. The book is both dense and revelatory. . . . The tragedy of the Irish Famine was ultimately the result of a population explosion, of economic backwardness aggravated by political repression, of ideological block-headedness and complacency. It changed Irish society, but its effects reached well beyond that, to Britain's colonies and to the United States."<b>---Katherine A. Powers, <i>The Boston Globe</i></b><br /><br />"A most impressive, even brilliant, work."<b>---Paul Bew, <i>The Spectator</i></b><br /><br />"Rigor and meticulousness may be found in <i>Black '47 and Beyond</i>.  Grda . . . Holds up to scrutiny each vexed aspect of the Famine and their previous interpretations. The book is both dense and revelatory."<b>---Katherine A. Powers, <i>The Boston Sunday Globe</i></b><br /><br />"Cormac  Grda, Ireland's most distinguished, prolific and wide-ranging economic historian, offers us a choice selection of six chapters. . . . The great value of the book lies in pushing the boundary of Irish famine studies beyond their accustomed limits and by including suggestive comparative references to famines in other times and places. By concentrating on a few topics,  Grda can share with the reader the wealth of his broad scholarship and technical mastery."<b>---Barbara Solow, <i>The Times Higher Education Supplement</i></b><br /><br />" Grda has for a number of years been recognized as the leading economic historian of the Irish Famine. This book will immediately be seen as by far the best economic history ever published on the subject, and will remain for decades the best place to start if you want to read something about the Famine. It combines clear, sound economic reasoning with an interdisciplinary approach and an accessible writing style."<b>Timothy W. Guinnane, Yale University</b>
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  Humanitarianism in the Modern World
  This is a history of famine relief and humanitarianism. The authors apply a
  moral economy approach to shed new light on the forces and ideas that
  motivated and shaped humanitarian aid during the Great Irish Famine, the
  famine of 1921–2 in Soviet Russia, and the 1980s Ethiopian Famine. They
  place these episodes within a distinctive periodisation of humanitarianism
  which emphasises the correlations with politico-econom