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Ulster to America
In
Ulster to America: The Scots-Irish Migration Experience,
1680–1830 , editor Warren R. Hofstra has gathered
contributions from pioneering scholars who are rewriting the
history of the Scots-Irish. In addition to presenting fresh
information based on thorough and detailed research, they offer
cutting-edge interpretations that help explain the Scots-Irish
experience in the United States. In place of implacable
Scots-Irish individualism, the writers stress the urge to build
communities among Ulster immigrants. In place of rootlessness
and isolation, the authors point to the trans-Atlantic
continuity of Scots-Irish settlement and the presence of
Germans and Anglo-Americans in so-called Scots-Irish areas. In
a variety of ways, the book asserts, the Scots-Irish actually
modified or abandoned some of their own cultural traits as a
result of interacting with people of other backgrounds and in
response to many of the main themes defining American history.
While the Scots-Irish myth has proved useful over time to
various groups with their own agendas—including
modern-day conservatives and fundamentalist
Christians—this book, by clearing away long-standing but
erroneous ideas about the Scots-Irish, represents a major
advance in our understanding of these immigrants. It also
places Scots-Irish migration within the broader context of the
historiographical construct of the Atlantic world. Organized in
chronological and migratory order, this volume includes
contributions on specific U.S. centers for Ulster immigrants:
New Castle, Delaware; Donegal Springs, Pennsylvania; Carlisle,
Pennsylvania; Opequon, Virginia; the Virginia frontier; the
Carolina backcountry; southwestern Pennsylvania, and Kentucky.
Ulster to America is essential reading for scholars
and students of American history, immigration history, local
history, and the colonial era, as well as all those who seek a
fuller understanding of the Scots-Irish immigrant story.
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Unsafe haven : the United States, the IRA, and political prisoners
'Well-written and easily accessible. It should be of interest to anyone in the field of Irish studies or the braoder issue of political prisoners.' Political Studies.
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The Scotch-Irish immigration to America : economic hardship in Ireland (1603-1775)
Focuses on the Scots-Irish and their hardships that led them to immigrate to America.
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Migration in Irish history, 1607-2007
Migration in Irish History, 1607-2007 is the first book to survey the theme of migration in Irish history over four centuries and to examine the dynamic relationship between its immigrants (including return migrants), internal migrants, and emigrants. The approach is based on the reconstruction of individual migration stories, and detailed use is made of maps, paintings and drawings to illustrate the migrant experience. Key terms are home, family and diaspora. The book traces how Ireland, since the Flight of the Earls (1607) and the Plantation of Ulster, developed as a site of diaspora for the peoples of Britain and rest of the world; and how the countries of the rest of the world developed as sites of diaspora for the peoples of Ireland. It prompts the question of how a better understanding of our migration past might help us meet the current challenges of immigration and building a shared future. Summary reprinted by permission of Palgrave Macmillan
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The 'mere Irish' and the colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641
This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Central to this argument is that the Ulster plantation bears more comparisons to European expansion throughout the Atlantic than (as some historians have argued) the early-modern state's consolidation of control over its peripheral territories. Farrell also demonstrates that plantation Ulster did not see any significant attempt to transform the Irish culturally or economically in these years, notwithstanding the rhetoric of a 'civilising mission'. Challenging recent scholarship on the integrative aspects of plantation society, he argues that this emphasis obscures the antagonism which characterised relations between native and newcomer until the eve of the 1641 rising. This book is of interest not only to students of early-modern Ireland but is also a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Atlantic history and indeed colonial studies in general.
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The Plantation of Ulster
The first major academic study of the Ulster Plantation in over 25 years. This collection of essays by leading scholars in the field on a broad range of historical and literary topics redresses the previous coverage of the plantations, moving away from an exclusive colonial perspective, to include the native Catholic experience.
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In the shadow of Enoch Powell
Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.Fifty years ago Enoch Powell made national headlines with his 'Rivers of Blood' speech, warning of an immigrant invasion in the once respectable streets of Wolverhampton. This local fixation brought the Black Country town into the national spotlight, yet Powell's unstable relationship with Wolverhampton has since been overlooked. Drawing from interviews and archival material, this book offers a rich local history through which to investigate the speech, bringing to life the racialised dynamics of space during a critical moment in British history. What was going on beneath the surface in Wolverhampton and how did Powell's constituents respond to this dramatic moment? The research traces the ways in which Powell's words reinvented the town and uncovers highly contested local responses. While Powell left Wolverhampton in 1974, the book returns to the city to explore the collective memories of the speech which continue to reverberate. In a contemporary period of new crisis and national divisions, revisiting the shadow of Powell allows us to reflect on racism and resistance from 1968 to today.
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Divided Cities
In Jerusalem, Israeli and Jordanian militias patrolled a fortified, impassable Green Line from 1948 until 1967. In Nicosia, two walls and a buffer zone have segregated Turkish and Greek Cypriots since 1963. In Belfast, \"peaceline\" barricades have separated working-class Catholics and Protestants since 1969. In Beirut, civil war from 1974 until 1990 turned a cosmopolitan city into a lethal patchwork of ethnic enclaves. In Mostar, the Croatian and Bosniak communities have occupied two autonomous sectors since 1993. These cities were not destined for partition by their social or political histories. They were partitioned by politicians, citizens, and engineers according to limited information, short-range plans, and often dubious motives. How did it happen? How can it be avoided?
Divided Citiesexplores the logic of violent urban partition along ethnic lines-when it occurs, who supports it, what it costs, and why seemingly healthy cities succumb to it. Planning and conservation experts Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth offer a warning beacon to a growing class of cities torn apart by ethnic rivals. Field-based investigations in Beirut, Belfast, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia are coupled with scholarly research to illuminate the history of urban dividing lines, the social impacts of physical partition, and the assorted professional responses to \"self-imposed apartheid.\" Through interviews with people on both sides of a divide-residents, politicians, taxi drivers, built-environment professionals, cultural critics, and journalists-they compare the evolution of each urban partition along with its social impacts. The patterns that emerge support an assertion that division is a gradual, predictable, and avoidable occurrence that ultimately impedes intercommunal cooperation. With the voices of divided-city residents, updated partition maps, and previously unpublished photographs,Divided Citiesilluminates the enormous costs of physical segregation.
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