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The global dimensions of Irish identity : race nation, and the popular press, 1840-1880 / / Cian T. McMahon



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Autore: McMahon Cian T. Visualizza persona
Titolo: The global dimensions of Irish identity : race nation, and the popular press, 1840-1880 / / Cian T. McMahon Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Chapel Hill, [North Carolina] : , : The University of North Carolina Press, , 2015
©2015
Edizione: First edition.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (255 p.)
Disciplina: 941.5081
Soggetto topico: Group identity - Ireland
National characteristics, Irish
Soggetto geografico: Ireland Civilization 19th century
Ireland History 19th century
Ireland Emigration and immigration
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: Acknowledgments -- Note on text -- Introduction -- L'esprit et les lois : Celts and Saxons in Ireland, 1840-1848 -- A lone, lone spot in the far southern seas : the Irish race in Australia, 1848-1855 -- Battling the Anglo-Saxon myth : Irish identity in the antebellum United States, 1848-1861 -- Scarce a battlefield from the north pole to the south : Irish Celts in the American Civil War, 1861-1865 -- American by nationality yet Irish by race : citizenship in the wake of the civil war, 1865-1880 -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Sommario/riassunto: Though Ireland is a relatively small island on the northeastern fringe of the Atlantic, 70 million people worldwide - including some 45 million in the US - claim it as their ancestral home. Cian T. McMahon explores the 19th-century roots of this transnational identity.
Titolo autorizzato: The global dimensions of Irish identity  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 979-88-908467-6-1
1-4696-2012-X
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910826167903321
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