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Famine, war, favour climate change: From picture Middle Last part to rendering Russia-Ukraine War
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- Climate Change , Ireland’s Great Famine: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (Dublin, ), When the Potato Failed (with Eric Vanhaute and Richard Papin, Brepols, ), and Famine: A Short History (Princeton, ).
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Research Interests
Climate change - famine - desertification - crop yields.
Themes
Earth, Air, Water.
Selected Publications
Ó Gráda and McCabe, D. () `Better off thrown behind a ditch': Enniskillen workhouse during the Irish Famine, In: Denie, M. and Farrell, S. (eds.), Festschrift for James S. Donnelly. Dublin: Irish Academic Press.
Ó Gráda, C. () Famine: A Short History. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Ó Gráda, C. () The Irish economy half a century ago, In: Miley, M. (ed.), Growing Knowledge: 50 Years of Agriculture and Food Research. Dublin: Teagasc.
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Roots of the Industrial Revolution
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Oct 1,
We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 coun more We analyze factors explaining the very different patterns of industrialization across the 42 counties of England between and Against the widespread view that high wages and cheap coal drove industrialization, we find that industrialization was restricted to low wage areas, while energy availability (coal or water) had little impact Instead we find that industrialization can largely be explained by two factors related to the human capability of the labour force. Instead of being composed of landless labourers, successful industrializers had large numbers of small farms, which are associated with better nutrition and height. Secondly, industrializing counties had a high density of population relative to agricultural land, indicating extensive rural industrial activity: counties that were already reliant on small scale industry, with the technical and entrepreneurial skills this generated, experienced the strongest industrial growth. Looking at s France we find that the strongest predictor of industrialization again is quality of workers shown by height of the population, although m