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PublisherBloomsbury Publishing USA

ISBN-10027597670X

ISBN-139780275976705

eBay Product ID (ePID)24038685703

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Number of Pages168 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameFleeing the Famine : North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851

Publication Year2003

SubjectEmigration & Immigration, United States / 19th Century, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies)

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaSocial Science, History

AuthorMargaret Mulrooney

FormatHardcover

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Item Height0.4 in

Item Weight14.7 Oz

Item Length9.2 in

Item Width6.1 in

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Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2002-030724

Reviews"This study is an interesting and, at times, provactive compilation of articles that reexamines the questions raised by Irish immigration to North America during and after the "Great Potato Famine" of the late 1840s. In it, Margaret M. Mulrooney brings together the work of authors grounded not only in the history of the United States but also in British, Irish, and Canadian history....The contributors in Fleeing the Famine fill a gap in the study of this phenomenon by providing a perspective from the view of the Atlantic rim that engages cause and effect, rather than from a single place and time."- The Historian, "This is a very useful and informative collection of essays....This comparative approach is a refreshing change from the more usual exclusively United States Irish perspective in most studies of the Irish Famine in North America....[w]ell worth reading for its original and at times very divergent interpretations of the meaning of the Famine migrations in North America."- Journal of American Ethnic History, "This is a very useful and informative collection of essays....This comparative approach is a refreshing change from the more usual exclusively United States Irish perspective in most studies of the Irish Famine in North America....[w]ell worth reading for its original and at times very divergent interpretations of the meaning of the Famine migrations in North America." Journal of American Ethnic History, "This study is an interesting and, at times, provactive compilation of articles that reexamines the questions raised by Irish immigration to North America during and after the "Great Potato Famine" of the late 1840s. In it, Margaret M. Mulrooney brings together the work of authors grounded not only in the history of the United States but also in British, Irish, and Canadian history....The contributors in Fleeing the Famine fill a gap in the study of this phenomenon by providing a perspective from the view of the Atlantic rim that engages cause and effect, rather than from a single place and time." The Historian

Dewey Edition21

Number of Volumes1 vol.

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal304.8/730415/09034

Table Of ContentPreface Introduction Migration Irish Famine Emigrants and the Passage to North America by William A. Spray The Ties that Bind: The Family Networks of Famine Refugees at the du Pont Powder Mills, 1802-1902 by Margaret M. Mulrooney Responses The Spirit of Manifest Destiny: The American Government and Famine Ireland by Timothy J. Sarbaugh An "Unprecedented Influx": Nativism and Irish Famine Immigration to Canada by Scott W. See "Celtic Exodus": The Famine Irish, Ethnic Stereotypes, and the Cultivation of American Racial Nationalism by Dale T. Knobel Irish American Drama of the 1850s: National Identity, "Otherness," and Assimilation by Stephen Watt Memories The Legacy of Irish Emigration to the Canadas in 1847 by Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth In the Famine's Shadow: An Irish Immigrant from West Kerry to South Dakota, 1881-1979 by Kerby A. Miller

SynopsisThe Irish Potato Famine caused the migration of more than two million individuals who sought refuge in the United States and Canada. In contrast to previous studies, which have tended to focus on only one destination, this collection allows readers to evaluate the experience of transatlantic Famine refugees in a comparative context. Featuring new and innovative scholarship by both established and emerging scholars of Irish America and Irish Canada, it carefully dissects the connection that arose between Ireland and North America during the famine years (1845-1851). In the more than 150 years since the onset of Ireland's Great Famine, historians have intensely scrutinized the causes, the year-by-year events, and the consequences of his human catastrophe. Who was to blame? Were the hunger and misery inevitable? Did the famine have revolutionary effects on the Irish economy? How did it change the nature of Irish religion? This new study complements the wealth of existing literature on the social, cultural, and political aspects of the Famine and invites the reader to consider the fate of the Irish refugees in their new home lands., Evaluates the experience of transatlantic Irish Famine refugees in a comparative context, including those who sought refuge in the United States and in Canada.

LC Classification NumberE184