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Format: Online-Ressource (215 p)

ISBN: 9780739187814

Content: 〈span〉〈span〉Focusing on the local New Jersey/New York Irish-American experience, this interdisciplinary book is a case study in what Irish-Americans have contributed to public and cultural life in the United States: how they have retained elements of Irish culture and invented elements of their own ethnic American culture. Students of ethnicity will find, in this book, strong theoretical underpinnings for enlightening discussions of cultural identity, hybridity, and commemoration.〈/span〉〈/span〉

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I: Irish Americans in the Newark Area; Chapter One: The Irish in the Church of Newark; Chapter Two: "Keeping the Tradition Alive"; Chapter Three: Perspectives on the Easter Rising; II: Arriving and Thriving; Chapter Four: Irish Immigration to the United States in the Twentieth Century; Chapter Five: American Irish in Service to Community & Country; Chapter Six: An Irish American Politician; Chapter Seven: The Writing Irish; III: The Greater New York/New Jersey Region; Chapter Eight: Music in the Mountains; Chapter Nine: "With Pick and Shovel" , About the EditorsAbout the Contributors; Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780739187821

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780739187814

Additional Edition: Print version The Irish-American Experience in New Jersey and Metropolitan New York : Cultural Identity, Hybridity, and Commemoration

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

URL: Volltext

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Format: Online-Ressource (385 p)

ISBN: 9780817318437

Content: This collection of biographical essays, written by thirty-four noted historians and political scientists, chronicles the times, careers, challenges, leadership, and legacies of the fifty-seven men and one woman who have served as the state's highest elected official. The book is organized chronologically into six sections that cover Alabama's years as a US territory and its early statehood, the 1840s through the Civil War and Reconstruction, the late nineteenth-century Bourbon era, twentieth-century progressive and wartime governors, the Civil Rights era and George Wallace's period of influenc

Note: Description based upon print version of record , Contents; Foreword by Governor Albert P. Brewer; Acknowledgments; Second Edition Acknowledgments; Political Maps of Alabama; Introduction; Part I. Territorial Period and Early Statehood, 1798-1847; Territorial Governors of the Alabama Area, 1798-1819 / Kit Carson Carter III; William Wyatt Bibb and Thomas Bibb / Daniel S. Dupre; Israel Pickens / Daniel S. Dupre; John Murphy / Hugh C. Bailey; Gabriel Moore / Harriet E. A. Doss; Samuel B. Moore / Mary Jane McDaniel; John Gayle / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins; Clement Comer Clay / J. Mills Thornton III; Hugh McVay / Mary Jane McDaniel , Arthur P. Bagby / Mary Jane McDanielBenjamin Fitzpatrick / J. Mills Thornton III; Joshua L. Martin / Hugh C. Bailey; Part II. Crises, Civil War, and Reconstruction, 1847-1874; Reuben Chapman / John R. Mayfield; Henry W. Collier / Leah Rawls Atkins; John A. Winston / William L. Barney; Andrew B. Moore / Leah Rawls Atkins; John Gill Shorter / Henry M. McKiven; Thomas H. Watts / Henry M. McKiven; Lewis E. Parsons / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins; Robert M. Patton / William Warren Rogers Jr.; Wager Swayne / Michael W. Fitzgerald; William Hugh Smith / Michael W. Fitzgerald , Robert B. Lindsay / Michael W. FitzgeraldDavid P. Lewis / Sarah Woolfolk Wiggins; Part III. The Bourbon Era, 1874-1900; George S. Houston / William Warren Rogers; Rufus W. Cobb / Robert David Ward; Edward A. O'Neal / Mary Jane McDaniel; Thomas Seay / Robert David Ward; Thomas G. Jones / Paul McWhorter Pruitt Jr.; William C. Oates / Paul McWhorter Pruitt Jr. ; Joseph F. Johnston / Michael Perman Jr.; Part IV . The Progressive Era through World War II, 1900-1947; William J. Samford / Marlene Hunt Rikard; William D. Jelks / David E. Alsobrook; Russell M. Cunningham / Marlene Hunt Rikard , Braxton Bragg Comer / David Alan HarrisEmmet O'Neal / R. B. Rosenburg; Charles Henderson / Lee N. Allen; Thomas E. Kilby / Michael A. Breedlove; William W. Brandon / Lee N. Allen; Bibb Graves / Wayne Flynt; Benjamin M. Miller / Glenn A. Feldman 209; Frank M. Dixon / Glenn A. Feldman; Chauncey M. Spark / Harvey H. Jackson III; Part V. Post-World War II to 1999; James E. Folsom / Carl Grafton and Anne Permaloff; Gordon Persons / S. Jonathan Bass; John Patterson / Anne Permaloff and Carl Grafton; George C. Wallace / Glenn T. Eskew; Lurleen B. Wallace / Glenn T. Eskew , Albert P. Brewer / Gordon E. HarveyJere Beasley Sr. / Margaret E. Armbrester and Samuel L. Webb; Forrest "Fob" James Jr. / William H. Stewart; Guy Hunt / William H. Stewart; James E. Folsom Jr. / William H. Stewart; Part VI . The Twenty-First Century; Don Siegelman / Samuel L. Webb and Margaret E.Armbrester; Robert "Bob" Renfroe Riley / S. Jonathan Bass; Robert Julian Bentley / Margaret E. Armbrester; Appendix A: Governors of Alabama; Appendix B: Provenance of Governors' Portraits; Select Bibliography; Contributors; Index

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817387754

Additional Edition: ISBN 9780817318437

Additional Edition: Print version Alabama Governors : A Political History of the State

Language: English

Keywords: Electronic books

URL: Volltext