1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454011303321

Titolo

Making the Irish American [[electronic resource] ] : history and heritage of the Irish in the United States / / edited by J.J. Lee and Marion R. Casey

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2006

ISBN

0-8147-5349-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (752 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

CaseyMarion R. <1962->

LeeJoseph <1942->

Disciplina

973/.049162

Soggetti

Irish Americans - History

Irish - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Interpreting Irish America; The Irish Background; 2 Modern Ireland: An Introductory Survey; Foundations; 3 Scots Irish or Scotch-Irish; 4 The Irish in North America, 1776-1845; 5 The Remaking of Irish-America, 1845-1880; Conflicts of Identity; 6 Ulster Presbyterians and the "Two Traditions" in Irelandand America; 7 Religious Rivalry and the Making of Irish-American Identity; 8 Address to the Ulster-Irish Society of New York, 1939; 9 American-Irish Nationalism

10 Refractive History: Memory and the Founders of theEmigrant Savings Bank11 Ubiquitous Bridget: Irish Immigrant Women in Domestic Servicein America, 1840-1930; 12 Labor and Labor Organizations; 13 Race, Violence, and Anti-Irish Sentiment in the Nineteenth Century; Popular Expressions of Identity; 14 Irish-American Popular Music; 15 The Irish and Vaudeville; 16 Irish Traditional Music in the United States; 17 Before Riverdance: A Brief History of Irish Step Dancing in America; 18 Irish-American Festivals; 19 Irish Americans in Sports: The Nineteenth Century

20 Irish Americans in Sports: The Twentieth CenturyReflections; 21 The Irish (1963, 1970); 22 Once We Were Kings (1999); 23 Democracy in



Action (1988); 24 Irish America, 1940-2000; 25 Twentieth-Century American Catholicism and Irish Americans; 26 The Fireman on the Stairs: Communal Loyalties in theMaking of Irish America; 27 The Tradition of Irish-American Writers: The Twentieth Century; 28 Looking for Jimmy (1999); 29 The Future of Irish America (2000); Appendix: The Irish in the U.S. Census: An Explanatory Note; Contributors; Permissions; Index

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910695824403321

Autore

Lamb Christopher J (Christopher Jon), <1955->

Titolo

Reforming Pentagon strategic decisionmaking [[electronic resource] /] / by Christopher J. Lamb and Irving Lachow

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : Institute for National Strategic Studies, National Defense University, , [2006]

Descrizione fisica

8 pages : digital, PDF file

Collana

Strategic forum ; ; no. 221

Altri autori (Persone)

LachowIrving

Soggetti

Military planning - United States

Group decision making

Strategic planning

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from title screen (viewed on June 14, 2007).

"July 2006."

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.