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Titolo |
Fleeing the famine [[electronic resource] ] : North America and Irish refugees, 1845-1851 / / edited by Margaret M. Mulrooney |
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Westport, Conn. : , : Praeger, , 2003 |
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New York : , : Bloomsbury Publishing (US), , 2024 |
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ISBN |
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979-84-00-65183-0 |
1-282-40813-5 |
9786612408137 |
0-313-05158-5 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (169 p.) |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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MulrooneyMargaret M. <1966-> |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Ireland - History - Famine, 1845-1852 |
Irish Americans - History - 19th century |
Irish - Migrations - History - 19th century |
Irish - Canada - History - 19th century |
Refugees - Canada - History - 19th century |
Refugees - United States - History - 19th century |
Canada Emigration and immigration History 19th century |
Ireland Emigration and immigration History 19th century |
United States Emigration and immigration History 19th century |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
Part III: Memories7 In the Famine's Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from |
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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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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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