Format:
1 Online-Ressource (357 Seiten)
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ISBN:
9780300275834
Content:
The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth century As millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants created community in the United States over the centuries, they neither remained Irish nor simply became American. Instead, they created a culture and defined an identity that was unique to their circumstances, a new people that they would continually reinvent: Irish Americans. Historian Timothy J. Meagher traces the Irish American experience from the first Irishman to step ashore at Roanoke in 1585 to John F. Kennedy's election as president in 1960. As he chronicles how Irish American culture evolved, Meagher looks at how various groups adapted and thrived-Protestants and Catholics, immigrants and American born, those located in different geographic corners of the country. He describes how Irish Americans made a living, where they worshiped, and when they married, and how Irish American politicians found particular success, from ward bosses on the streets of New York, Boston, and Chicago to the presidency. In this sweeping history, Meagher reveals how the Irish American identity was forged, how it has transformed, and how it has held lasting influence on American culture
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Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Old Ireland: From Its Beginnings to the Eighteenth Century -- 2. Irish Immigration in the Colonial Era: 1585-1775 -- 3. Irish America in the Age of Revolution: 1775-1815 -- 4. Irish America in Transition: 1815-1845 -- 5. The Famine and Irish Immigrants in America: 1845-1880 -- 6. The Famine Irish American Community in an America in Crisis: 1845-1880 -- 7. A New Generation and New Immigrants in Turn-of-the-Century America: 1880-1928
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8. Searching for Their Place at the End of the Nineteenth Century: The Irish American Community, 1880-1908 -- 9. Finding Their Place: The Irish American Community, 1900-1928 -- 10. Rising Power: Irish Americans in New Deal America, 1928-1939 -- 11. The Old Order at High Tide: Irish America in World War II and Postwar America, 1940-1960 -- Epilogue and Conclusion -- Notes -- Index
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300126273
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als ISBN 0300126271
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780300126273
Language:
English
Keywords:
USA
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Iren
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Ethnische Identität
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Geschichte 1585-1963
