Figures in a famine landscape / by Ó Murchadha, Ciarán

Table of Contents: “…Kennedy -- 10. Figures in a Famine Landscape.…”
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Ballykilcline rising : from famine Ireland to immigrant America / by Dunn, Mary Lee

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Compassionate stranger : Asenath Nicholson and the great Irish famine / by Murphy, Maureen O'Rourke

“…Ireland History Famine, 1845-1852.…”
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Marching through suffering : loss and survival in North Korea / by Fahy, Sandra

Table of Contents: “…A Short History of the North Korean Famine --…”
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The Scholar and the Tiger : a Memoir of Famine and War in Revolutionary China / by Chang, David W., 1929-, Carter, Alden R.

Table of Contents: “…The lucky daughter -- The enduring cycle -- The frustrated scholar -- Famine -- The good student -- The tiger -- The wise mother -- The tiger at bay -- Exile -- America and the prodigal's return.…”
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Marching through suffering : loss and survival in North Korea / by Fahy, Sandra

Table of Contents: “…A Short History of the North Korean Famine --…”
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Looking for Jimmy : a search for Irish America / by Quinn, Peter

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Iron eyes : the life and teachings of the Ōbaku Zen master Tetsugen Dōkō / by Baroni, Helen Josephine

Table of Contents: “…Letter to Yamazaki Hanzaemon regarding the famine --…”
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China mission : a personal history from the last imperial dynasty to the people's republic / by Topping, Audrey

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Stalin / by Kuromiya, Hiroaki

Table of Contents: “…From Georgia to Russia -- Revolution and civil war -- Struggle for power -- 'Revolution from above' -- Famine and terror -- War -- Struggle for survival -- Twilight of the god.…”
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Mary Chesnut's Civil War epic / by Stern, Julia A.

Table of Contents: “…Walls : epic in miniature -- Seeds : fertility, flowers, and fratricide -- Seeds : fruits and famine -- Words : reading and writing -- Smells : the stench of slavery and sentiment -- Masks : theatricals in black -- Masks : theatricals in white -- Revolt : family troubles in the house divided -- Revolt : more family troubles in the house divided -- Recognition : looking defeat in the face.…”

A medieval life : Cecilia Penifader of Brigstock, c. 1295-1344 / by Bennett, Judith M.

Table of Contents: “…Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The World Around Her (House and farmyard ; Arable, pasture, stream and forest ; the wider world) -- Chapter 3: Lords, Ladies, and Peasants (seignorial powers, peasants and their 'social betters') -- Chapter 4: Parish, Belief, Ritual (peasant piety; the parish and its clergy ; the ritual year) -- Chapter 5: Changing Times (the great famine 1325-22 ; the wrath of God? ; the aftermath of the great famine ; the black death [plague]) -- Chapter 6: Kin and Household (... in childhood, adulthood, kinship and inheritance) -- Chapter 7: An Economy of Makeshifts (household economy ; labor market ; commodity market ; land market) -- Chapter 8: Community (managing the community ; friends and neighbors ; a loss of commuity spirit?) …”

Mary Chesnut's Civil War epic / by Stern, Julia A.

Table of Contents: “…Walls: epic in miniature -- Seeds: fertility, flowers, and fratricide -- Seeds: fruits and famine -- Words: reading and writing -- Smells: the stench of slavery and sentiment -- Masks: theatricals in black -- Masks: theatricals in white -- Revolt: family troubles in the house divided -- Revolt: more family troubles in the house divided -- Recognition: looking defeat in the face.…”
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Dagger John : Archbishop John Hughes and the making of Irish America / by Loughery, John

Table of Contents: “…A son of Ulster -- A vocation -- Courting controversy -- New York City, 1838-1839 -- Who shall teach our children -- The Baal of bigotry -- War and famine -- A widening stage -- The church militant -- Authority challenged -- A new cathedral -- A nation divided, a church divided -- Manhattan under siege.…”
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Remembering Aizu : the testament of Shiba Gorō / by Shiba, Gorō, 1860?-1945

Table of Contents: “…Childhood -- Beginning of the tragedy -- Reaction in Aizu -- A Fight to the death -- A Sea of fire -- A Night of despair -- Last days of the Bakufu -- A Time of trial for the family -- Detention camp in Edo -- Journey to Hell -- The Fight against famine -- A Ray of hope in the wilderness -- Tokyo: the old and the new -- The Happiest day of my life -- Military school -- The Satsuma Rebellion -- End of the Satsuma Rebellion.…”
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Edmund Burke and Ireland : aesthetics, politics and the colonial sublime / by Gibbons, Luke

Table of Contents: “…'This king of terrors' : Edmund Burke and the aesthetics of executions -- 'Philoctetes' and colonial Ireland : the wounded body as national narrative -- The sympathetic sublime : Edmund Burke, Adam Smith, and the politics of pain -- Did Edmund Burke cause the Great Famine? Commerce, culture, and colonialism -- 'Tranquillity tinged with terror' : the sublime and agrarian insurgency -- Burke and colonialism : the Enlightenment and cultural diversity -- 'Subtilized into savages' : Burke, progress, and primitivism -- 'The return of the native' : the United Irishmen, culture, and colonialism.…”

Bright star of the west : Joe Heaney, Irish song-man / by Williams, Sean, 1959-, Ó Laoire, Lillis, 1961-

Table of Contents: “…The Iconic Repertoire. Singing the famine -- The religious laments -- The medieval transformed.…”
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Doctors at war : the clandestine battle against the Nazi occupation of France / by Hampton, Ellen

Table of Contents: “…Harsh Conditions, Slow Famine -- 6. Persecution Intensifies -- 7. Prisoners of Hatred -- 8. …”
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Theodore Roosevelt : champion of the American spirit / by Kraft, Betsy Harvey

Table of Contents: “…The strenuous life -- The sweetness of home -- Darling wifie -- The wild west -- My literary work -- We stirred things up -- Man's work -- Immense fun -- A great historical expedition -- New York politics -- A most honorable office -- I felt at once it was bad news -- A household of children -- No easy job -- A coal famine -- Roosevelt's corollary -- In the interest of the United States -- If elected ... -- The square deal -- A bride at every wedding -- Carry a big stick -- Good-bye, Mr. …”