Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815
by Kerby A. Miller Arnold Schrier Bruce D. Boling David Noel Doyle etc.
RRP €73.35
Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan
Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815
by Author Name Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, David Noel Doyle, etc.
- Book details for title
- List Price: €73.35
- Format: Hardback, 251 x 174 x 42mm, 816pp
- Publication date: 27 Mar 2003
- Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc
- ISBN-13: 9780195045130
Description
"Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan" is a monumental study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to America. Through exhaustive research and analysis of the migrants' letters and memoirs, the editors explore why the immigrants left Ireland, how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, and how their experiences and attitudes shaped society, culture and politics, and created modern Irish and Irish-American identities, in America and Ireland alike.
Reviews
The editors here have provided us with a fundamentally important and useful collection of primary accounts of Irish emigation to North America over the long eighteenth-century. [...] an invaluable book, not only for scholars and students of Irish migration, but also for anyone interested in reading about and understanding the earliest accounts of the development of diverse Irish-American experiences. Irish Literaru Supplement 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. Irish-Diaspora List
Additional Information
- Illustrations: 21 halftones & 6 maps