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  • The Civil War as Global Conflict

    Transnational Meanings of the American Civil War

    de David T. Gleeson, Simon Lewis ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    A collection of scholarly essays exploring the American Civil War from international perspectives.In an attempt to counter the insular narratives of much of the sesquicentennial commemorations of the Civil War in the United States, editors David T. Gleeson and Simon Lewis present this collection of essays that examine the war as more than a North American conflict, one with transnational concerns. ... Leer más

    $12.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Irish in the Atlantic World

    Edición de David T. Gleeson ...
    Series series Carolina Lowcountry and the Atlantic World
    A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present.The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical, and ethnic paradigms. Edited by David T. Gleeson, this collection of essays offers a robust new vision of ... Leer más

    $43.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • English Ethnicity and Culture in North America

    Edición de David T. Gleeson ...
    Ten scholars examine English identity, what makes it distinct, and its role in shaping American cultureTo many, English immigrants contributed nothing substantial to the varied palette of ethnicity in North America. While there is wide recognition of German American, French American, African American, and Native American cultures, discussion of English Americans as a distinct ethnic group is rare. ... Leer más

    $39.99 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • The Irish in the South, 1815-1877

    de David T. Gleeson ...
    The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.The Irish who migrated to the Old South struggled to make a new home in a land where they were viewed as foreigners and were set apart by language, high rates of illiteracy, and their own self ... Leer más

    $28.99 USD

  • The Green and the Gray

    The Irish in the Confederate States of America

    de David T. Gleeson ...
    Series series Civil War America
    Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson’s sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subject, Gleeson considers the role of Irish southerners in the debates over secession and the formation of the Confederacy, ... Leer más

    $18.99 USD

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  • Freedom Burning

    Anti-Slavery and Empire in Victorian Britain

    de Richard Huzzey ...
    After Britain abolished slavery throughout most of its empire in 1834, Victorians adopted a creed of "anti-slavery" as a vital part of their national identity and sense of moral superiority over other civilizations. The British government used diplomacy, pressure, and violence to suppress the slave trade, while the Royal Navy enforced abolition worldwide and an anxious public debated the true ... Leer más

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  • The Heart of the Declaration

    The Founders' Case for an Activist Government

    de Steve Pincus ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    An eye-opening, meticulously researched new perspective on the influences that shaped the Founders as well as the nation's founding documentFrom one election cycle to the next, a defining question continues to divide the country’s political parties: Should the government play a major or a minor role in the lives of American citizens? The Declaration of Independence has long been invoked as a ... Leer más

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  • Moral Capital

    Foundations of British Abolitionism

    de Christopher Leslie Brown ...
    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    Revisiting the origins of the British antislavery movement of the late eighteenth century, Christopher Leslie Brown challenges prevailing scholarly arguments that locate the roots of abolitionism in economic determinism or bourgeois humanitarianism. Brown instead connects the shift from sentiment to action to changing views of empire and nation in Britain at the time, particularly the anxieties ... Leer más

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  • Revolution Against Empire

    Taxes, Politics, and the Origins of American Independence

    de Justin du Rivage ...
    Series series The Lewis Walpole Series in Eighteenth-Century Culture and History
    A bold transatlantic history of American independence revealing that 1776 was about far more than taxation without representationRevolution Against Empire sets the story of American independence within a long and fierce clash over the political and economic future of the British Empire. Justin du Rivage traces this decades-long debate, which pitted neighbors and countrymen against one another, ... Leer más

    $32.99 USD

  • The Consequences of Loyalism

    Essays in Honor of Robert M. Calhoon

    de Rebecca Brannon, Joseph S. Moore ...
    This anthology examines the role of Loyalism in the American Revolution, building on the pioneering work of historian Robert M. Calhoon.Calhoon's work on American Loyalists redefined their role in the Revolution, showing them to be dynamic figures adapting to a society in upheaval. In The Consequences of Loyalism, editors Rebecca Brannon and Joseph S. Moore shed light on Calhoon's foundational ... Leer más

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  • The Famine Irish

    Emigration and the Great Hunger

    Edición de Ciaran Reilly ...
    From a range of leading academics and historians, this collection of essays examines Irish emigration during the Great Famine of the 1840s. From the mechanics of how this was arranged to the fate of the men, women and children who landed on the shores of the nations of the world, this work provides a remarkable insight into one of the most traumatic and transformative periods of Ireland's history. ... Leer más

    $20.09 USD o gratis con Kobo Plus

  • John A

    The Man Who Made Us

    de Richard J. Gwyn ...
    The first full-scale biography of Canada’s first prime minister in half a century by one of our best-known and most highly regarded political writers.The first volume of Richard Gwyn’s definitive biography of John A. Macdonald follows his life from his birth in Scotland in 1815 to his emigration with his family to Kingston, Ontario, to his days as a young, rising lawyer, to his tragedy-ridden ... Leer más

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