UID:
(DE-602)gbv_686601947
Format:
Online-Ressource (xiv, 154 p)
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Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2010 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
027597670X
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9780275976705
Series Statement:
Non-Ser.
Content:
The Irish Potato Famine caused the migration of more than two million individuals who sought refuge in the United States and Canada. In contrast to previous studies, which have tended to focus on only one destination, this collection allows readers to evaluate the experience of transatlantic Famine refugees in a comparative context. Featuring new and innovative scholarship by both established and emerging scholars of Irish America and Irish Canada, it carefully dissects the connection that arose between Ireland and North America during the famine years (1845-1851).||In the more than 150 years
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; Part I: Migration; 1 Irish Famine Emigrants and the Passage Trade to North America; 2 The Ties that Bind: The Family Networks of Famine Refugees at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902; Part II: Responses; 3 The Spirit of Manifest Destiny: The American Government and Famine Ireland, 1845-1849; 4 "An Unprecedented Influx": Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada; 5 "Celtic Exodus": The Famine Irish, Ethnic Stereotypes, and the Cultivation of American Racial Nationalism; 6 Irish American Drama of the 1850s: National Identity, "Otherness," and Assimilation
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Part III: Memories7 In the Famine's Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881-1979; 8 The Legacy of Irish Emigration to the Canadas in 1847; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; W; Y; About the Contributors
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780275976705
Additional Edition:
Print version Fleeing the Famine : North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851
Language:
English
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