LEADER 04016nam 2200721 450 001 9910823557403321 005 20230803033320.0 010 $a0-8014-6967-8 010 $a0-8014-6968-6 024 7 $a10.7591/9780801469688 035 $a(CKB)3710000000072586 035 $a(EBL)3138545 035 $a(OCoLC)865565852 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001179695 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11976392 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001179695 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11181469 035 $a(PQKB)11381072 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001504895 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3138545 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse28933 035 $a(DE-B1597)481919 035 $a(OCoLC)885220599 035 $a(OCoLC)992523683 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780801469688 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3138545 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10812575 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL683620 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000072586 100 $a20130524d2013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA union forever $ethe Irish question and U.S. foreign relations in the Victorian age /$fDavid Sim 210 1$aIthaca :$cCornell University Press,$d2013. 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aThe United States in the world 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-322-52338-X 311 $a0-8014-5184-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction : an Atlantic triangle -- Challenging the union : American repeal and US diplomacy -- Ireland is no longer a nation : the Irish famine and American diplomacy -- Filibusters and Fenians : contesting neutrality -- The Fenian Brotherhood, naturalisation, and expatriation : Irish-Americans and Anglo-American comity -- Toward home rule : from the Fenians to Parnell's ascendancy -- A search for order : the decline of the Irish question in American diplomacy -- Epilogue : rapprochement, Paris, and a free state. 330 $a"In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question--the governance of the island of Ireland--demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the burgeoning global influence of the United States to achieve Irish independence. Simultaneously, he tracks how American politicians used the Irish question as means of furthering their own diplomatic and political ends. Combining an innovative transnational methodology with attention to the complexities of American statecraft, Sim rewrites the diplomatic history of this neglected topic. He considers the impact that nonstate actors had on formal affairs between the United States and Britain, finding that not only did Irish nationalists fail to involve the United States in their cause but actually fostered an Anglo-American rapprochement in the final third of the nineteenth century. Their failures led them to seek out new means of promoting Irish self-determination, including an altogether more radical, revolutionary strategy that would alter the course of Irish and British history over the next century"--$cPublisher's Web site. 410 0$aUnited States in the world. 606 $aIrish question 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zIreland 607 $aIreland$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$zGreat Britain 607 $aGreat Britain$xForeign relations$zUnited States 607 $aUnited States$xForeign relations$y19th century 607 $aIreland$xPolitics and government$y19th century 615 0$aIrish question. 676 $a327.730417/09034 700 $aSim$b David$f1985-$01694284 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823557403321 996 $aA union forever$94072724 997 $aUNINA