Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race /

Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race / / Bruce Nelson.

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Nelson, Bruce,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2012]
©2012
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Core Textbook
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 22 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Illustrations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Part 1. The Making of the Irish Race
  • Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) Race
  • Chapter One. "The blood of an Irishman"
  • Chapter Two. Celts, Hottentots, and "white chimpanzees"
  • Part 2. Ireland, Slavery, and Abolition
  • Chapter Three. "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen"
  • Chapter Four. "The Black O'Connell of the United States"
  • Part 3. Ireland and Empire
  • Chapter Five. "From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland"
  • Chapter Six. "Because we are white men"
  • Part 4. Ireland and Revolution
  • Chapter Seven. Negro Sinn Féiners and Black Fenians
  • Chapter Eight. "The Irish are for freedom everywhere"
  • Epilogue: The Ordeal of the Irish Republic
  • Notes
  • Index

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