The Global Dimensions of Irish Identity : Race, Nation, and the Popular Press, 1840-1880 /

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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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McMahon, Cian T. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chapel Hill, NC : University of North Carolina Press, [2015]
Edition:1 edition.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Irish.
Group identity.
Emigration and immigration.
Civilization.
HISTORY > United States > 19th Century.
HISTORY > Europe > Great Britain.
Irlandais.
Identite collective > Irlande.
Group identity > Ireland.
Ireland.
Irlande > Émigration et immigration.
Irlande > Histoire > 19e siecle.
Irlande > Civilisation > 19e siecle.
Ireland > Emigration and immigration.
Ireland > History > 19th century.
Ireland > Civilization > 19th century.
History.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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