A Union Forever : : The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age /

A Union Forever : : The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age / / David Sim.

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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 burgeoni...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Backlist 2000-2013
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Sim, David,
Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2013]
©2013
Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:The United States in the World
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.) :; 5 halftones, 1 table
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: An Atlantic Triangle
  • 1. Challenging the Union: American Repeal and U.S. Diplomacy
  • 2. Ireland Is No Longer a Nation: The Irish Famine and American Diplomacy
  • 3. Filibusters and Fenians: Contesting Neutrality
  • 4. The Fenian Brotherhood, Naturalization, and Expatriation: Irish Americans and Anglo-American Comity
  • 5. Toward Home Rule: From the Fenians to Parnell's Ascendancy
  • 6. A Search for Order: The Decline of the Irish Question in American Diplomacy
  • Epilogue: Rapprochement, Paris, and a Free State
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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