History A-Level
Monoculture
What Monoculture means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Monoculture
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Dependence on the potato as a single crop, so a single crop failure threatened total destitution.
Topics that use Monoculture
- Paper 3, Option 36.2: Ireland and the Union, c1774–1923 - 3 The Irish Famine, 1843–51 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Emigration and migration
- Encumbered Estates Act 1849
- Food export and moral economy
- Government relief policy
- Absentee landlords
- Blight
- Depopulation
- Laissez-faire and market ideology
Using Monoculture in the exam
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