Umfang:
Online-Ressource (vii, 224 p)
Ausgabe:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
ISBN:
0748623752
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9780748630141
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9780748623754
Serie:
Scottish Historical Review Monographs no. 15
Inhalt:
This book focuses on the leading figures in radical politics in Ireland and Scottish highlands and explores the links between them. It deals with topics that have been at the centre of recent discussions on the Highland land question, the politics of the Irish community in Scotland, and the development of the labour movement in Scotland. The author argues that the Irish activists in the Scottish Highlands and in urban Scotland should be seen as adherents to notions of social and economic reform, such as land nationalisation, and not as Irish nationalists or Home Rulers. This leads him to make
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-216) and index
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COVER; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; chapter 1 Scotland, Ireland and the Land Question; chapter 2 'A Sort of Fenian Conclave in the Country': The Development of a Highland Land Question; chapter 3 'Blessed are Those who Expect Little, for They Shall not be Disappointed': Alleged and Actual Irish Involvement in the Development of the 'Crofters' War', 1877-1880; chapter 4 'An Obscure Hall in East Nile Street': Urban Radicalism and the 'Crofters' War', 1881-1882
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chapter 5 'The Active Propaganda of Socialist Agitation': Strands of Land and Social Reform in Ireland and the Highlandschapter 6 'A Scotch Parnellite Party': Land, Home Rule and the Third Reform Act; chapter 7 'Two Tribes which Sprang from the Same Stock': Celtic Solidarity and Political Realignment in the Highlands, 1886-1895; chapter 8 'The Highlands have Reaped what Michael Davitt has Sown': Legislation and Agitation to the Great War; chapter 9 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
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Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780748623754
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Ireland, Radicalism, and the Scottish Highlands, 1870-1912
Sprache:
Englisch
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