The American Irish - A History - Paperback - 2000

The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a longoverdue synthesis of IrishAmerican history from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to the present day. While most previous accounts of the subject have concentrated on the nineteenth century, and especially the period from the famine 1840s to Irish independence 1920s, The American Irish: A History incorporates the Ulster Protestant emigration of the eighteenth century and is the first book to include extensive coverage of the twentieth century. Drawing on the most innovative scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic in the last generation, the book offers an extended analysis of the conditions in Ireland that led to mass migration and examines the Irish immigrant experience in the United States in terms of arrival and settlement, social mobility and assimilation, labor, race, gender, politics, and nationalism. It is ideal for courses on Irish history, IrishAmerican history, and the history of American immigration more generally.

Year of publication: 2000
Pagination: 352 pages, illustrations
Format: Paperback
Serie: Studies in Modern History