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Sherman, Jill

The Irish Potato Famine: A Cause-and-Effect Investigation

40 pp. | Lerner | November, 2016 | Library ISBN 978-1-5124-1119-5 $30.65 | Ebook ISBN 978-1-5124-1131-7
(3) 4-6 Cause-and-Effect Disasters series. Sherman explores the nineteenth-century Irish potato disaster in four succinct chapters addressing its economic and political causes and effects. She provides historical background before relating the major events and their far-reaching aftermath (including modern research tracing the original source of the crop's disease to Mexico). Numerous photographs/illustrations, diagrams, sidebars, and a clear appended flow chart round out the presentation. Reading list, websites. Bib., glos., ind.
Reviewer: Rita Soltan

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