A union forever : : the Irish question and U.S. foreign relations in the Victorian age / / David Sim.
"In the mid-nineteenth century the Irish question--the governance of the island of Ireland--demanded attention on both sides of the Atlantic. In A Union Forever, David Sim examines how Irish nationalists and their American sympathizers attempted to convince legislators and statesmen to use the...
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| Superior document: | The United States in the world |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca : : Cornell University Press,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | United States in the world.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (279 pages) :; illustrations. |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : an Atlantic triangle
- Challenging the union : American repeal and US diplomacy
- Ireland is no longer a nation : the Irish famine and American diplomacy
- Filibusters and Fenians : contesting neutrality
- The Fenian Brotherhood, naturalisation, and expatriation : Irish-Americans and Anglo-American comity
- Toward home rule : from the Fenians to Parnell's ascendancy
- A search for order : the decline of the Irish question in American diplomacy
- Epilogue : rapprochement, Paris, and a free state.