Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815

ISBN-13: 9780195045130 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 816 str.

Kerby A. Miller; Arnold Schrier; Bruce D. Boling

Opis

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.

Recenzje

Miller, Schrier, Boling & Doyle deserve warm congratulations for bringing such an enthralling volume to fruition ... it is heartening that Miller generously allows other scholars access to his vast collection of materials in order that such testimonies receive the widespread dissemination they deserve.