Irish immigrants in the land of Canaan : letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America, 1675-1815 /
Publisher's 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...
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| Online Access: | Electronic book from EBSCO |
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Published: | Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003. |
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| Summary: | Publisher's 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxvii, 788 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-764) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780195348224 0195348222 1423707729 9781423707721 9780195045130 0195045130 9780195154894 0195154894 6610449597 9786610449590 |
| Access: | Access limited to authorized users. |