History (mostly Canadian), a little politics (ditto), and [MAYBE] the Tour de France in July.
Thursday, January 14, 2010
Famine history
Ireland seems almost oversupplied with terrific historians. One of them, economic historian Cormac O'Grada, has moved on from revisionist analyses of the Irish Famine of the 1840s and written what looks like a terrific history of famine itself.