Irish population, economy, and society : essays in honour of the late K.H. Connell / edited by J.M. Goldstrom and L.A. Clarkson

Oxford New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 1981. 1st edition. Hardcover. Library copy, library marks remain internally. Very good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat dulled and rubbed as with age. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Physical description: x, 322 pages: illustrations; 23 cm. Notes: ""Bibliography of the writings of Professor K.H. Connell"": page 308. Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents: Irish population revisited, 1687-1821 / L.A. Clarkson -- On the accuracy of the pre-famine Irish censuses / J. Lee -- The demography of the Irish Quakers, 1650-1850 / D.E.C. Eversley -- Population growth and diet, 1600-1850 / L.M. Cullen -- Indian meal and pellagra in nineteenth century Ireland / E.M. Crawford -- Landlord indebtedness in Ulster in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries / P. Roebuck -- Irish agriculture and the great famine / J.M. Goldstrom -- Regional specialization, railway development, and Irish agriculture in the nineteenth century / L. Kennedy -- Irish emigration to Dundee and Paisley during the first half of the nineteenth century / B. Collins -- Thomas Barbour and the American linen-thread industry / E.R.R. Green -- Thomas Newenham, 1762-1831 / H.D. Gribbon -- Ireland's crystal palace, 1853 / A.C. Davies -- Horace Plunkett and agricultural reform / C. Ehrlich -- The Belfast boycott, 1920-1922 / D.S. Johnson. Subjects: Connell, K. H. (Kenneth Hugh) 1917-1973. 17th-19th centuries. Peasants Ireland History. Social Conditions history. Rural Population history. Ireland Population History. Genre: Bibliography. History. Illustrated.