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The global dimensions of Irish identity : race nation, and the popular press, 1840-1880 /

Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide - including some 45 million in the US - claim it as their ancestral home. Cian T. McMahon explores the 19th-century roots of this transnational identity.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: McMahon, Cian T. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Edición:1 edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on text
  • Introduction
  • L'esprit et les lois : Celts and Saxons in Ireland, 1840-1848
  • A lone, lone spot in the far southern seas : the Irish race in Australia, 1848-1855
  • Battling the Anglo-Saxon myth : Irish identity in the antebellum United States, 1848-1861
  • Scarce a battlefield from the north pole to the south : Irish Celts in the American Civil War, 1861-1865
  • American by nationality yet Irish by race : citizenship in the wake of the civil war, 1865-1880
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index.