Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford Paperbacks)
Kerby A. Miller
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Paperback. Covering the massive emigration of some 7 million people from Ireland to the USA between 1660 and the 1900s, this focuses on the thought and behaviour of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, Catholic and Protestant, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, songs, and folklore. Num Pages: 704 pages, 1map. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 1KBB; 3J; HBTB; JFFN; JHM; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 228 x 154 x 37. Weight in Grams: 978.
From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the momentous causes of the Irish emigration and its far-reaching impact - on the people themselves, on the land they left behind, and on the new one they came to. Drawing on enormous original research, Miller focuses on the thought and behaviour of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, Catholic and Protestant, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, journals, and ... Read more
From the 1660s to the early 1900s, no fewer than seven million people emigrated from Ireland to North America. This vast flow at once reflected and compelled enormous social changes on both sides of the Atlantic. In this book Miller chronicles the momentous causes of the Irish emigration and its far-reaching impact - on the people themselves, on the land they left behind, and on the new one they came to. Drawing on enormous original research, Miller focuses on the thought and behaviour of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, Catholic and Protestant, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, journals, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1988
Publisher
Oxford University Press, U.S.A.
Condition
New
Number of Pages
704
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780195051872
SKU
V9780195051872
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About Kerby A. Miller
Kerby A. Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia.
Reviews for Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America (Oxford Paperbacks)
a very readable treatment of this theme ... vivid pictures spike his documentary which bring to recognition, if only for a moment, the ordinary figures This is a truly monumental work of scholarship.
Sunday Times
This is the most important book on Irish emigration to appear in a generation, and it is destined to be the monument by ... Read more
Sunday Times
This is the most important book on Irish emigration to appear in a generation, and it is destined to be the monument by ... Read more