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DESCRIPTION:Rot: Appetite and Political Economy in Ireland before the Famin
 e\n	Padraic X. Scanlan (University of Toronto)\n\n12:30-2:00 ARTS160\n\nAbs
 tract: On the eve of the Great Famine (1845-1851)\, British commentators s
 peculated about the apparently limitless\, even freakish appetite of the p
 oorest Irish rural labourers for potatoes. Potatoes were more than a stapl
 e for the Irish poor\; millions subsisted on potatoes\, or potatoes and mi
 lk\, and nothing else. To many officials and political economists\, this t
 otal dependence on potatoes symbolised Irish antiquity. The Irish\, by the
 se lights\, were an atavism in the United Kingdom\, a people from another 
 time who needed to be brought into the economic present\, through land ref
 orm\, labour discipline\, and fresh injections of English capital. In real
 ity\, the potato made possible an endless squeeze on Irish labourers to pr
 oduce crops for export\, mostly to England and Scotland. Rather than insul
 ating Ireland from the risks of nineteenth-century global capitalism\, the
  potato economy left the very poorest workers in the United Kingdom exquis
 itely vulnerable to the perils of the market.\n\nBio: PADRAIC X. SCANLAN e
 arned a BA (Hons) in History from ɬÀï·¬ in 2008\, and a PhD in
  History from Princeton University in 2013. He is Associate Professor in t
 he Centre for Industrial Relations and Human Resources and the Centre for 
 Diaspora & Transnational Studies at the University of Toronto and a Resear
 ch Associate at the Joint Centre for History and Economics at the Universi
 ty of Cambridge. He has also held appointments at the London School of Eco
 nomics and Harvard University. He is the author of Freedom's Debtors (Yale
 \, 2017)\, which\, in 2018\, was awarded the James A. Rawley Prize and the
  Wallace K. Ferguson Prize\, and Slave Empire (Robinson\, 2020).\n
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