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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...

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Autor principal: Janis, Ely M. (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • 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.