After the Famine examines Irish agriculture in the wake of the disastrous famine of the 1840s. Michael Turner's detailed study is in three parts: he analyzes changing agricultural structures in terms of land use and peasant occupancy; he estimates the annual value of Irish output; he assesses Irish agricultural performance in terms of several measures of productivity. These analyses question prevailing orthodoxies about income distribution, and make an important contribution to a controversial area of Irish and economic history.
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"A challenging study that requires a good understanding of quantitative history. Recommended for upper division undergraduates and above." C.W. Wood Jr., Choice
"The issues discussed in this book are central to our understanding of post-Famine Ireland. Turner's findings will be discussed and examined. Ireland's historians owe Turner a debt for this coherent, accessible account, one that forms a starting point for future research and that will, because of its methodological care and reproduction of key statistics, assist those who want to pursue these issues further." Timothy W. Guinnane, The Journal of Economic History
"...the book serves as a great resource and a careful, conscientious guide through many basic data, and scholars will be turning to it often, with gratitude." Barbara L. Solow, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Turner's meticulous methodological approach is one of consistency and precision....this study will be of enduring value." Thomas P. Maloney, Albion
"Social and economic historians of the British Isles will find this volume immensely useful." Thomas P. Maloney, Albion
"Michael Turner has written a highly detailed analysis of the Irish agricultural economy's response to various changes in internal and external circumstances after the famine, differing from many of his predecessors in the field but always consciously engaged with their evidence and conclusions." John Kendle, Agricultural History
"Turner has succeeded in producing a volume that will compel a careful reassessment of the relationship between economic and political change in post-Famine Ireland." Donald Jordan, American Historical Review
"...this solid monograph is a very important contribution to the continuing debate on the post-famine agricultural economy and its role in shaping modern Irish politics and society." David W. Miller, Journal of Social History
"The issues discussed in this book are central to our understanding of post-Famine Ireland. Turner's findings will be discussed and examined. Ireland's historians owe Turner a debt for this coherent, accessible account, one that forms a starting point for future research and that will, because of its methodological care and reproduction of key statistics, assist those who want to pursue these issues further." Timothy W. Guinnane, The Journal of Economic History
"...the book serves as a great resource and a careful, conscientious guide through many basic data, and scholars will be turning to it often, with gratitude." Barbara L. Solow, Journal of Interdisciplinary History
"Turner's meticulous methodological approach is one of consistency and precision....this study will be of enduring value." Thomas P. Maloney, Albion
"Social and economic historians of the British Isles will find this volume immensely useful." Thomas P. Maloney, Albion
"Michael Turner has written a highly detailed analysis of the Irish agricultural economy's response to various changes in internal and external circumstances after the famine, differing from many of his predecessors in the field but always consciously engaged with their evidence and conclusions." John Kendle, Agricultural History
"Turner has succeeded in producing a volume that will compel a careful reassessment of the relationship between economic and political change in post-Famine Ireland." Donald Jordan, American Historical Review
"...this solid monograph is a very important contribution to the continuing debate on the post-famine agricultural economy and its role in shaping modern Irish politics and society." David W. Miller, Journal of Social History
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Divided into three parts, this text examines Irish agriculture in the wake of the disastrous famine of the 1840's. It analyses changing agricultural structures in terms of land use and peasant occupancy; estimates the annual value of Irish output; and assesses Irish agricultural performance in terms of several measures of productivity.
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It is not always remembered that the Irish economy in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as thereafter, was inextricably bound to the rest of Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard man days, tillage output, livestock unit equivalents, national rent bill, final agricultural output, annual agricultural statistics, tenant net income, holding size groups, fodder famine, tillage acreage, annual enumeration, potato output, creamery system, labour usage, annual average output, landholding distribution, tillage production, hay cultivation, population census years, modem estimates, spade husbandry, potato acreage, potato prices, peasant independence, statute acre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great War, Land War, Economic History Review, Great Britain, Agricultural Statistics of Ireland, Peter Solar, Crimean War, Census of Ireland, Irish Peasants, Agricultural History Review, European Historical Statistics, University of London, University of Manchester, Agricultural Geography, Irish Historical Studies, Journal of the Department of Agriculture, United Kingdom, American Civil War, Irish Sea, Mid-Victorian Ireland, Barbara Solow, Farm Management Survey, Great Depression, Irish Geography, Liam Kennedy New!
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It is not always remembered that the Irish economy in the first half of the nineteenth century, as well as thereafter, was inextricably bound to the rest of Britain. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
standard man days, tillage output, livestock unit equivalents, national rent bill, final agricultural output, annual agricultural statistics, tenant net income, holding size groups, fodder famine, tillage acreage, annual enumeration, potato output, creamery system, labour usage, annual average output, landholding distribution, tillage production, hay cultivation, population census years, modem estimates, spade husbandry, potato acreage, potato prices, peasant independence, statute acre Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great War, Land War, Economic History Review, Great Britain, Agricultural Statistics of Ireland, Peter Solar, Crimean War, Census of Ireland, Irish Peasants, Agricultural History Review, European Historical Statistics, University of London, University of Manchester, Agricultural Geography, Irish Historical Studies, Journal of the Department of Agriculture, United Kingdom, American Civil War, Irish Sea, Mid-Victorian Ireland, Barbara Solow, Farm Management Survey, Great Depression, Irish Geography, Liam Kennedy New!
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- The Land Question and the Irish Economy (Economic Studies) by Barbara Lewis Solow on 10 pages
- The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork: The Rural Economy and the Land Question by James S. Donnelly on 7 pages
- Landlords and Tenants in Mid-Victorian Ireland by W. E. Vaughan on 6 pages
- Land, Labour, and Livestock: Historical Studies in European Agricultural Productivity by Bruce Campbell on 4 pages
- Agricultural Geography (University Paperbacks) by William Basil Morgan on 4 pages
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