Nelson Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race

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ISBN: 978-1-4008-4223-0
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Autoren/Hrsg.

Nelson, Bruce

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Ideologien Nationalismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Kultur- und Sozialethnologie: Politische Ethnologie, Recht, Organisation, Identität

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations ix
Acknowledgments xi

Part 1. The Making of the Irish Race
Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) Race 3
Chapter 1. "The blood of an Irishman": The English Construction of the Irish Race, 1534–1801 17
Chapter 2. Celts, Hottentots, and "white chimpanzees": The Racialization of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century 30

Part 2. Ireland, Slavery, and Abolition
Chapter 3. "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen": Daniel O’Connell, American Slavery, and the Making of the Irish Race 57
Chapter 4. "The Black O’Connell of the United States": Frederick Douglass and Ireland 86

Part 3. Ireland and Empire
Chapter 5. "From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer Fight for Freedom" 121
Chapter 6. "Because we are white men": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish Quest for Self-Government, 1899-1922 148

Part 4. Ireland and Revolution
Chapter 7. Negro Sinn Féiners and Black Fenians: "Heroic Ireland" and the Black Nationalist Imagination 181
Chapter 8. "The Irish are for freedom everywhere": Eamon de Valera, the Irish Patriotic Strike, and the"“last white nation. deprived of its liberty" 212

Epilogue: The Ordeal of the Irish Republic 242
Notes 259
Index 323

Über Autor(innen)

Bruce Nelson is professor emeritus of history at Dartmouth College. He is the author of Divided We Stand: American Workers and the Struggle for Black Equality (Princeton) and Workers on the Waterfront: Seamen, Longshoremen, and Unionism in the 1930s.