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Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration
Donald Harman Akenson
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Description for Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration
Paperback. Argues (against the increasing refusal of mainstream historians to use empirical databases) that the history community still has a lot to learn from economic historians; and, simultaneously, that narrow, economically based explanations of the Great European Migration leave out many of the most important aspects of the whole complex transaction. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1DNS; 3JH; HBJD; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 16. Weight in Grams: 456. Clean copy with minor shelf wear
This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and why. These two matters, Akenson shows, are intimately related. Ireland and Sweden each provide a tight case study of a larger phenomenon, one that, for better or worse, shaped the modern world: the Great European Diaspora of the "true" nineteenth century. Akenson's book parts company with the great bulk of recent emigration research by employing ... Read more
This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and why. These two matters, Akenson shows, are intimately related. Ireland and Sweden each provide a tight case study of a larger phenomenon, one that, for better or worse, shaped the modern world: the Great European Diaspora of the "true" nineteenth century. Akenson's book parts company with the great bulk of recent emigration research by employing ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781846317507
SKU
KAC0003105
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Donald Harman Akenson
Donald Harman Akenson is currently Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He was also beamish Research Professor of Migration Studies at the University of Liverpool from 1997-2004 and Honorary Professor at the Research Institute of Irish and Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. Akenson has received six honorary doctorates for his scholarly work. ... Read more
Reviews for Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration
D. H. Akenson is widely regarded as the most distinguished scholar of the history of the Irish diaspora, and justifiably so, given his enormous range of interests and his impressive list of books and scholarly articles. What characterises the Akenson approach is an engaging style of writing, a deep and seeming insatiable curiosity about the structures of the past—and how ... Read more