Delaney Enda / Donald Macraild (eds.)

Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities since 1750

Herausgeber: Delaney, Enda; M Macraild, Donald

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a collection of essays, which demonstrate how a range of formal and informal networks shaped the Irish experience of emigration, settlement and the construction of ethnic identity in a variety of geographical contexts since 1750. This volume represents a study that contributes to debates in the history of global migration.

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This books re-examines the global history of Irish migration by focusing on the formal and informal networks which migrants from Ireland utilised to meld their social lives to make sense of the new worlds into which they settled.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. August 2007
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 612g
• ISBN-13: 9780415390538
• ISBN-10: 0415390532
• Artikelnr.: 24423805

Autorenporträt

Dr Enda Delaney, Donald M. MacRaild

Inhaltsangabe

Irish Migration
Networks and Ethnic Identities Since 1750: An Introduction
1. 'Women of the Wild Geese': Irish Women
Exile and Identity in Spain
1750-1775
2. Metropole and Colony: Irish Networks and Patronage in the Eighteenth-Century Empire
3. 'We are Irish Everywhere': Irish Immigrant Networks in Charieston
South Carolina
and Savannah
Georgia
4. Priests
Publicans and the Irish Poor: Ethnic Enterprise and Migrant Networks in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Liverpool
5. 'Operating in the Ethnic Sphere': Irish Migrant Networks and the Question of Respectability in Nineteenth-Century South Wales
6. Networking Respectability: Class
Gender and Ethnicity among the Irish in South Wales
1845-1914
7. Exporting Brotherhood: Orangeism in South Australia
8. Networks
Communication and the Irish Protestant Diaspora in Northern England
c.1860-1914
9. 'Bands of Fellowship': The Role of Personal Relationships and Social Networks among Irish Migrants in New Zealand
1861-1911
10. Deconstructing Diasporas: Networks and Identities among the Irish in Buffalo and Toronto
1870-1910
11. Imagined Irish Communities: Networks of Social Communication of the Irish Diaspora in the United States and Britain in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
12. Transnationalism
Networks and Emigration from Post-War Ireland
Notes on Contributors
Index