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DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Institute for Development Studies and the D
 epartment of History and Classical Studies.\n\nPadraic Scanlan's book Rot\
 , on empire and the Irish famine\, has met with widespread acclaim\, inclu
 ding being the subject of a feature-length article in The New Yorker. T\n
 \nRot was a New Yorker Best Book of the Year\; referred to by the Wall Str
 eet Journal as 'undoubtedly a history title of the year'\; and termed 'an 
 incredibly important work'\, by Sathnam Sanghera\, author of Empireworld.
 \n\nScanlan is also a former Honours History student in the Department of 
 History and Classical Studies\, Â鶹´«Ã½ÍøÕ¾\n\n \n\nABSTRACT:\n\nOn 
 the eve of the Great Famine (1845-1851)\, British commentators speculated 
 about the apparently limitless\, even freakish appetite of the poorest Iri
 sh rural labourers for potatoes. Potatoes were more than a staple for the 
 Irish poor\; millions subsisted on potatoes\, or potatoes and milk\, and n
 othing else. To many officials and political economists\, this total depen
 dence on potatoes symbolised Irish antiquity. The Irish\, by these lights\
 , were an atavism in the United Kingdom\, a people from another time who n
 eeded to be brought into the economic present\, through land reform\, labo
 ur discipline\, and fresh injections of English capital. In reality\, the 
 potato made possible an endless squeeze on Irish labourers to produce crop
 s for export\, mostly to England and Scotland. Rather than insulating Irel
 and from the risks of nineteenth-century global capitalism\, the potato ec
 onomy left the very poorest workers in the United Kingdom exquisitely vuln
 erable to the perils of the market.\n
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SUMMARY:Padraic Scanlan - 'Rot: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland b
 efore the Famine'.  
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