Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine by Padraic X. Scanlan

Rot: An Imperial History of the Irish Famine

Padraic X. Scanlan

352 pages hardcover 2025

7 editions

nonfiction history challenging informative sad slow-paced
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A revelatory new history of the Irish Great Famine, showing how the British Empire caused Ireland's most infamous disaster In 1845, European potato fields from Spain to Scandinavia were attacked by a novel pathogen. But it was only in Ireland, the...

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