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Tables of Contents for Famine, Land and Politics
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
vii
Irish land and British politics
1
40
The problem of Irish land
1
6
Economic orthodoxy and its critics
7
10
Varieties of Whiggism: Foxites, moderates and moralists
17
9
The politics of `Justice to Ireland', 1830--41
26
11
Peelites and Tories
37
4
Agitation and inquiry, 1843--6
41
54
The `landlord and tenant question', 1843
42
16
The Commission and its critics, 1843--4
58
11
`A cart-load of cross-examinations': the response to the Devon Commission report
69
9
`As mysterious as the bricks of Babylon': Peel's land legislation
78
17
The coming of the blight: land and relief, 1845-6
95
47
Potatoes and Providence
96
11
Free trade and food policy
107
18
Relief works, land and coercion
125
17
Whiggery and the land question, 1846-50
142
85
Bessborough's administration, 1846-7
143
25
Clarendon, clearances and coercion, 1847-8
168
28
`Free trade in land', 1847-50
196
31
`The visitation of God': the Whigs and famine relief, 1846-7
227
57
The Whigs and the blight: strategies and tensions
227
13
Public works and `sound principle', 1846-7
240
16
Providence and the Poor Law, 1847
256
28
`Between the censure of the Economists and the Philanthropists': the Whigs and famine relief, 1847-50
284
44
Cutting the `Gordian Knot', 1847-8
285
19
`Natural causes', 1848-9
304
18
`Disposed of by a higher Power', 1849-50
322
6
Conclusion
328
11
Bibliography
339
27
Index
366