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Record Nr.

UNINA9910780183903321

Autore

Gleeson David T

Titolo

The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 [[electronic resource] /] / David T. Gleeson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chapel Hill, : University of North Carolina Press, c2001

ISBN

979-88-908721-9-7

0-8078-7563-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (292 p.)

Disciplina

975/.0049162

Soggetti

Irish Americans - Southern States - History - 19th century

Irish Americans - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century

Irish Americans - Southern States - Ethnic identity

Immigrants - Southern States - History - 19th century

Immigrants - Southern States - Social conditions - 19th century

White people - Southern States - History - 20th century

Southern States Ethnic relations

Southern States Social conditions 19th century

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 (p. [239]-268)and index.

Nota di contenuto

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: The Irish Diaspora; Chapter 2: Urban Pioneers in the Old South; Chapter 3: Earning a Living; Chapter 4: Family, Community, and Ethnic Awareness; Chapter 5: Keeping the Faith; Chapter 6: The Irish, the Natives, and Politics; Chapter 7: The Know-Nothing Challenge; Chapter 8: Slavery, State Rights, and Secession; Chapter 9: The Green and the Gray; Chapter 10: Irish Confederates; Chapter 11: Postwar Integration; Conclusion: Irish Southerners; Appendix; Notes; Selected Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

A comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the 19th-century American South, this book seeks to make a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.