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The Road to Home Rule : Anti-imperialism and the Irish National Movement

In the 1870s and 1880s, as the United Kingdom avidly built its empire in Asia and Africa, its rampant expansionism came under the scrutiny of its first and oldest colony, Ireland. Some Irish considered themselves loyal subjects and proud participants in the imperial enterprise, but others drew sharp...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Townend, Paul A.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago : University of Wisconsin Press, 2016.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • List of Illustrations ; Acknowledgments ; Prologue: Trouble on the Land ; Introduction ; 1. Irish Imperial Politics and the Imperial Dimensions of Buttite Home Rule ; 2. The Afghan and Zulu Wars and Anti-imperial Irish Politics ; 3. Between the Wars.
  • 4. Liberal Imperialism: The Irish and the Boer War 5. Anti-imperialism and the Social Movement of Nationalism: The Egyptian Crisis in Ireland ; 6. The Changing Politics of Irish Anti-imperialism.
  • 7. Anti-imperialism and the Limits of Political Possibility: Nationalists, Home Rule, and the Sudan Epilogue: The First Home Rule Bill and the Contours of Irish Anti-imperialism ; Conclusion ; Notes ; Bibliography ; Index.