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  • The Irish Diaspora in Britain, 1750-1939

    by Donald MacRaild ...
    Series series Social History in Perspective
    This established study focuses on the most important phase of Irish migration, providing analysis of why and how the Irish settled in Britain in such numbers. Updated and expanded, the new edition now extends the coverage to 1939 and features new chapters on gender and the Irish diaspora in a global perspective. ... Read more

    $38.89 USD

  • Social Theory and Social History

    by Donald MacRaild, Avram Taylor ...
    Series series Theory and History
    The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies. As the range of the social historian's concerns has grown, so has the range of methodologies and theoretical approaches they employ. Historians have made greater use of the theoretical insights of social scientists, and boundaries between the ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • British and Irish diasporas

    Societies, cultures and ideologies

    Edited by Donald MacRaild, Tanja Bueltmann, J. C. D. Clark ...
    People from the British and Irish Isles have, for centuries, migrated to all corners of the globe.Wherever they went, the English, Irish, Scots, Welsh, and and even sub-national, supra-regional groups like the Cornish, co-mingled, blended and blurred. Yet while they gradually integrated into new lives in far-flung places, British and Irish Isle emigrants often maintained elements of their ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • The English diaspora in North America

    Migration, ethnicity and association, 1730s–1950s

    by Tanja Bueltmann, Donald MacRaild ...
    Ethnic associations were once vibrant features of societies, such as the United States and Canada, which attracted large numbers of immigrants. While the transplanted cultural lives of the Irish, Scots and continental Europeans have received much attention, the English are far less widely explored. It is assumed the English were not an ethnic community, that they lacked the alienating experiences ... Read more

    $28.09 USD

  • Studying History

    by Jeremy Black, Donald MacRaild ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Study Skills
    This best-selling guide will help you get to grips with the larger themes and issues behind historical study, while also showing you how to formulate your own ideas in a clear, analytical style. Fully updated throughout, further advice on using web-based sources and avoiding plagiarism will equip you with the tools you need to succeed on your course. ... Read more

    $29.19 USD

  • Irish Migration, Networks and Ethnic Identities since 1750

    Edited by Donald Macraild, Enda Delaney ...
    This collection of essays demonstrates in vivid detail 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. It examines topics as diverse as the associational culture of the Orange Order in the nineteenth century to ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • The Death Census of Black ’47: Eyewitness Accounts of Ireland’s Great Famine

    by Liam Kennedy, Donald M. MacRaild, Lewis Darwen, Brian Gurrin ...
    Series Book 1 - Anthem Irish Studies
    The Great Irish Famine claimed the lives of one million people, mainly from the lower classes. More than a million others fled the stricken land between 1845 and 1851. In recent decades, its history has become the focus of considerable scholarly and popular attention, but much remains to be retrieved and reconstructed, particularly at the level of the rural poor. This book fills that gap. It is ... Read more

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  • The Famine Plot

    England's Role in Ireland's Greatest Tragedy

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  • The Great Irish Potato Famine

    by James S Donnelly Jr ...
    In the century before the great famine of the late 1840s, the Irish people, and the poor especially, became increasingly dependent on the potato for their food. So when potato blight struck, causing the tubers to rot in the ground, they suffered a grievous loss. Thus began a catastrophe in which approximately one million people lost their lives and many more left Ireland for North America, ... Read more

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  • God's Fury, England's Fire

    A New History of the English Civil Wars

    by Michael Braddick ...
    A brilliantly researched and vividly written history of the English Civil Wars, from one of Britain's most prominent Civil War historiansThe sequence of civil wars that ripped England apart in the seventeenth century was the single most traumatic event in this country between the medieval Black Death and the two world wars. Indeed, it is likely that a greater percentage of the population were ... Read more

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