ROT Rebecca Balcarcel The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional

The Oxford Reading Tree Traditional Tales series includes 40 of the best known stories from all over the world

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and an active participant in the Nazi machinery of terror whose choices continue to reverberate today

ROT Rebecca Balcarcel The Oxford Reading Tree TraditionalAbout ROT by Padraic X. Scanlan In the 1800s, as Britain became the world's most powerful industrial empire, Ireland starved. The Great Famine fractured long held assumptions about political economy and 'civilisation', threatening disorder in Britain. Ireland was a laboratory for empire, shaping British ideas about colonisation, population, ecology and work. In Rot, Padraic Scanlan reinterprets the history of this time and the result is a revelatory