Under the Starry Flag : : How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship / / Lucy E. Salyer.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2018
• VerfasserIn: Salyer, Lucy E.,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2018]; ©2018
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (338 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue: Erin’s Hope and the Forgotten Right of Expatriation --; Part One: The Fenians and the Making of a Crisis --; 1. Clonakilty, God Help Us! --; 2. Exiles and Expatriates --; 3. The Fenian Pest --; 4. Civis Americanus Sum --; Part Two: Citizenship on Trial --; 5. A Floating Rebellion --; 6. The Voice from the Dungeon --; 7. All the World’s a Stage --; Part Three: Reconstructing Citizenship --; 8. Are Naturalized Americans, Americans? --; 9. This Is a White Man’s Government! --; 10. The Politics of Expatriation --; 11. Private Diplomatizing --; 12. Treating Expatriation --; Epilogue: Exits --; Notes --; Acknowledgments --; Credits --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674989214; 9783110606621
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674989214
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Lucy E. Salyer.

In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this gripping tale, a prelude to today’s immigration battles.