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A greater Ireland : the Land League and transatlantic nationalism in Gilded Age America /
During the early 1880s a continual interaction of events, ideas, and people in Ireland and the United States created a "Greater Ireland" that impacted both Irish and American society. This book examines the Irish National Land League, a transatlantic organization. Founded in Ireland in 187...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Madison, Wisconsin :
The University of Wisconsin Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | History of Ireland and the Irish diaspora.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; List of Abbreviations; Introduction; Part I. The Transatlantic Origins of the Land League; 1. The "Uncrowned King of Ireland": Charles Stewart Parnell's 1880 Mission to America; 2. "An Agitator of the Best Kind": Michael Davitt and the Rise of the Land League in the United States; Part II. The Effect of the Land League in the United States; 3. From Plymouth Rock to the Golden Gate: The Growth and Spread of the Land League in the United States.
- 4. "Ireland to Us Is Father and Mother and America Is the Wife": Conservative Irish-American Nationalism, the Land League, and the Quest for Respectability5. "Spreading the Light": Patrick Ford, Irish-American Radical Nationalism, and the Land League; 6. "Let Us Rise to Action": Gender, Ethnic Nationalism, and the Ladies' Land League in the United States; Part III. The End of the Land League; 7. "Ireland Is Fighting Humanity's Battle": The No-Rent Manifesto, Land Nationalization, and the Radical Challenge in the United States.
- 8. The Road from Kilmainham Jail: The Death of the Land League and the Triumph of Conservative Irish Nationalism in the United States and IrelandEpilogue; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.