Victims of Ireland's great famine the bioarchaeology of mass burials at Kilkenny Union Workhouse / Jonny Geber ; foreword by Clark Spencer Larsen.
| Author/creator | Geber, Jonny |
| Other author | Larsen, Clark Spencer. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015] |
| Description | xxiii, 282 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete |
| Subjects |
| Series | Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives |
| 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. |
| Abstract | 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. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages [237]-271) and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015019365 |
| ISBN | 9780813061177 |
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