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Seated by the Sea : The Maritime History of Portland, Maine, and Its Irish Longshoremen
Traces the rise of the Irish-American immigrant community in Portland, Maine, through its control of waterfront labor over eight decades before the port's twentieth century decline.
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Gainesville :
UPF,
2010.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Table of Contents ix; List of Illustrations xi; Foreword xiii; Acknowledgments xv; Chronology xix; Introduction 1; 1 "Delightfully Situated on a Healthy Hill": The Port of Portland before the Civil War 6; 2 Black Fades to Green on the Waterfront: Nineteenth-Century Social, Racial, and Ethnic Change 36; 3 A Mixed Blessing: Portland at the Turn of the Twentieth Century 65; 4 Lost Strikes and Union Affiliation: Early Twentieth-Century Labor Militancy Alongshore 84; 5 Apex of the Union and Catholic Hierarchical Influence 113
- 6 Longshore Culture and the Decline of the Port of Portland in the Mid-to-Late Twentieth Century 141Conclusion The Port of Portland in the Twenty-First Century and Its Maritime Future 181; Appendix A: Portland Town 195; Appendix B: Day of the Clipper 197; Appendix C: PLSBS Retirement List as of January 1983 199; Appendix D: Oral Histories; Appendix E: Longshore Nicknames 203; Appendix F: Membership Levels of the Portland Longshoremen's Benevolent Society 215; Notes 219; Bibliography 243; Index 269