‘Immediate in time and spectacular in space’: Famine,violence and death by proxy

Arnold D (1988) Famine: Social Crisis and Historical Change. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Foucault M (2003) Society Must Be Defended: Lectures at the Collège De France, 1975–1976. New York: Picador.

Harvey D (2003) The New Imperialism. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Hill G (1971 [1887]) Facts from Gweedore. Belfast: Institute of Irish Studies.

Hughes J (1847) A Lecture on the Antecedent Causes of the Irish Famine in 1847: Delivered Under the Auspices of the General Committee for the Relief of the Suffering Poor of Ireland Delivered at the Broadway Tabernacle, March 20th, 1847. New York: Edward Dunigan.

Mokyr J (1983) Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800–1850. London: George Allen and Unwin.

Nixon R (2011) Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Rangasami A (1985) ‘Failure of exchange entitlements’ theory of famine: A response. Economic and Political Weekly 20(41): 1747–1752; 1797–1780.

Scrope GP (1849) Some Notes of a Tour in England, Scotland, and Ireland: Made with a View to the Inquiry Whether our Labouring Population be Really Redundant? In Letters to the Editor of the ‘Morning Chronicle’. London: James Ridgway.

Watts M (1991) Entitlements or empowerment? Famine and starvation in Africa. Review of African Political Economy 18(51): 9–26.

Whelan K (1995) Pre- and post-famine landscape change. In: Póirtéir C (ed.) The Great Irish Famine. Dublin: Mercier Press, 19–33.