Meagher The Columbia Guide to Irish American History

1. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-0-231-51070-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Meagher, Timothy

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Forschungsmethodik, Wissenschaftliche Ausstattung
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Part I. A History of Irish Americans from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-first Century
Introduction: The Irish as Immigrants and Ethnics
1. Irish Immigration to Colonial America
2. Irish America from the Revolution to the Famine
3. The Famine Years
4. The Turn of the Twentieth Century
5. The Twentieth Century
6. The 1960s to the Present
Part II. Issues and Themes in Irish American History
1. Irish American Gender and Family
2. Irish Americans in Politics
3. Irish American Nationalism
4. Irish Americans and Race
Part III. Important People, Organizations, Events, and Terms
Part IV. Chronology of Irish America
Part V. Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Timothy J. Meagher is associate professor of history and curator of the American Catholic History Collections at Catholic University. He is the author of several works, including The New York Irish (with Ronald Bayor) and Inventing Irish America: Generation, Class, and Ethnic Identity in a New England City, 1880 to 1928, winners of the James Donnelly prize for the Best Book in Irish American history.