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This week we explore the relationship between famine, migration and public health, focusing in particular on the 鈥楪reat Famine鈥�, which spurred huge waves of migration to England, North America and Australasia and vast problems in managing an unprecedented flow of impoverished migrants for host nations. Over 2 million Irish left Ireland during and in the immediate aftermath of the Famine. From the first years of the Great Famine there has been intense controversy as to its causes, its consequences and the state鈥檚 responses to the crisis. In England Irish migration provided a spur to the Condition of England debates, and was associated in particular with epidemics of typhus and cholera. Further, this session will focus on 脫 Gr谩da and O鈥橰ourke鈥檚 article on 鈥榣essons from the Great Irish Famine鈥� to explore the broader relationship between migration, famine and disease epidemiology.

1. How did migration impact on attitudes towards and ways of managing epidemic disease outbreaks?
2. Can we 鈥榣earn鈥� lessons from the historical past with regard to the relationship between famine, movements of population and epidemiological crises?

Cormac 脫 Gr谩da and Kevin H O鈥橰ourke, 鈥楳igration as Disaster Relief: Lessons from the Great Irish Famine鈥�, European Review of Economic History, 1 (2006), 3-25 (Cambridge Journals, available online via 糖心TV Library).

Jeffrey Evans, 鈥業ntroduction: Migration and Health鈥�, Special Issue of International Migration Journal 鈥楳igration and Health鈥�, 21 (1987), v-xiv. (JSTOR)

Read through Alison Bashford鈥檚 introduction 鈥樷�淭he Age of Universal Contagion鈥�: History, Disease and Globalization鈥�, in Alison Bashford (ed.), Medicine at the Border: Disease Globalisation and Security, 1850 to the Present (Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 1-17.

Dip into James Vernon, Hunger: A Modern History (Cambridge, Mass and London: Harvard University Press, 2007), esp chapters 1 and 2.

Frank Neal, 鈥楾he Famine Irish in England and Wales鈥� and Patrick O鈥橲ullivan and Richard Lucking, 鈥楾he Famine World Wide: The Irish Famine and the Development of Famine Policy and Famine Theory鈥�, in Patrick O鈥橲ullivan, The Meaning of the Famine (London and New York: Leicester University Press, 1997), 56-80, 195-232.

Frank Neal, Sectarian Violence: The Liverpool Experience 1819-1914 (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1988), chapter III.

Cormac 脫 Gr谩da, Black 鈥�47 and Beyond The Great Irish Famine (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1989), esp. chapter 3.

Cormac 脫 Gr谩da, Ireland鈥檚 Great Famine. Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Dublin: University College Dublin Press, 2006), esp. chapters 4, 7 and 10.

Cormac 脫 Gr谩da, 鈥楩amine, Trauma and Memory鈥�, 叠茅补濒辞颈诲别补蝉, 69 (2001), 121-43. (JSTOR)

Donald M. MacRaild, Irish Migrants in Modern Britain, 1750-1922 (Houndmills: Macmillan, 1999).

Roger Swift and Sheriden Gilley, The Irish in the Victorian City (London: Croom Helm, 1985).

Mervyn A. Busteed, Robert I. Hodgson and Thomas F. Kennedy, 鈥楾he Myth and Reality of Irish Migrants in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Manchester: A Preliminary Study鈥�, in Patrick O鈥橲ullivan (ed.), The Irish in the New Communities (Leicester and London: Leicester University Press, 1992), 26-51.

Liam Greenslade, 鈥楾he Blackbird Calls in Grief: Colonialism, Health and Identity among Irish Immigrants in Britain鈥�, in Jim MacLaughlin (ed.), Location and Dislocation in Contemporary Irish Society: Emigration and Irish Identities (Cork: Cork University Press, 1997), 36-60. Not in library, ordered ILL

Mary Poovey, Making a Social Body: British Cultural Formation 1830-1864 (Chicago and London: 1995), chapter 6 鈥楧omesticity and Class Formation: Chadwick鈥檚 1842 Sanitary Report鈥�.

Alan M. Kraut, 鈥業llness and Medical Care among Irish Immigrants in Antebellum New York鈥�, in Ronald H. Bayor and Timothy J. Meager (eds), The New York Irish (Baltimore and London: Johns Hopkins University Press, 153-68.

Alan M. Kraut, Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the 鈥業mmigrant Menace鈥� (New York: Basic Books, 1994), chapter 2.

Liam Greenslade, Moss Madden and Maggie Pearson, 鈥楩rom Visible to Invisible: The 鈥淧roblem鈥� of the Health of Irish People in Britain鈥�, in Lara Marks and Michael Worboys (eds), Migrants, Minorities and Health (London and New York: Routledge, 1997), 147-78.

Patrick Bracken and Patrick O鈥橲ullivan, 鈥楾he Invisibility of Irish Migrants in British Health Research鈥�, Irish Studies Review, 9:1 (April 2001), 41-51.

Additional Readings: Famine in India, Famine and Development

S. Ambirajan, 鈥樷��, Population Studies 30:1 (1976)

D. Arnold, 鈥�, in Ranajit Guha (ed.), Subaltern Studies III (1984).

D. Arnold, (1988), ch. 2

M. Davis, Late Victorian Holocausts: El Nino Famine and the Making of the Third World (2000)

T. Dyson, 鈥樷��, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 26:2 (1989).

T. Dyson (ed.), India鈥檚 Historical Demography: Studies in Famine, Disease and Society (1989).

I. Klein, 鈥�, Indian Economic and Social History Review, 21:2 (1984).

P. Sainath, (1996), pp. 317-24, 339-46, 367-70.

R. Seavoy, (1986), ch. 4.

A. Sen, (1981), ch. 1, pp. 1-8.

B. Stein, (1998), pp. 260-64 [good introduction to the topic].

L. and P. Visaria, 鈥楶opulation 1757-1947鈥� in D. Kumar (ed.), Cambridge Economic History of India, Vol.2 (1983)