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A union forever : the Irish question and U.S. foreign relations in the Victorian age /

"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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Основен автор: Sim, David, 1985-
Формат: Електронна книга
Език: English
Публикувано: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2013.
Серия: United States in the world.
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Онлайн достъп: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Подобни документи: Print version:: Union forever : the Irish question and U.S. foreign relations in the Victorian age.
Съдържание:
  • 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.