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Under the starry flag : how a band of Irish Americans joined the Fenian revolt and sparked a crisis over citizenship /
"In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this g...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Prologue: Erin's hope and the forgotten right of expatriation
- Part One. The Fenians and the making of a crisis. Clonakilty, God help us! ; Exiles and expatriates ; The Fenian pest ; Civis Americanus sum
- Part Two. Citizenship on trial. A floating rebellion ; The voice from the dungeon ; All the world's a stage
- Part Three. Reconstructing citizenship. Are naturalized Americans, Americans? ; This is a white man's government! ; The politics of expatriation ; Private diplomatizing ; Treating expatriation
- Epilogue: Exits.