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

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Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2015]

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Description	1 online resource.
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past: local, regional, and global perspectives
	Bioarchaeological interpretations of the human past.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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Subject	Famine in Ireland (Ireland : 1845-1852)
	Famines -- Ireland -- Kilkenny (County) -- History -- 19th century.
	Famines.
	Ireland -- Kilkenny (County)
	History.
Chronological Term	19th century
Subject	Mass burials -- Ireland -- Kilkenny (County) -- History -- 19th century.
	Mass burials.
	Workhouses -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
	Workhouses.
	Ireland.
	Ireland -- History -- Famine, 1845-1852.
	Starvation -- History -- 19th century.
	Starvation.
	Poor -- Ireland -- History -- 19th century.
	Poor.
Chronological Term	1800-1899
Genre/Form	History.
	Electronic books.
Added Author	Larsen, Clark Spencer, author of introduction, etc.
Other Form:	Print version: Geber, Jonny, author. Victims of Ireland's great famine 9780813061177 (DLC) 2015019365 (OCoLC)904861699
ISBN	9780813055633 electronic book
	0813055636 electronic book
	9780813061177
	0813061172

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

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