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1 online resource |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Illustrations; Acknowledgments; Part 1. The Making of the Irish Race; Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) Race; Chapter 1. ""The blood of an Irishman"": The English Construction of the Irish Race, 1534-1801; Chapter 2. Celts, Hottentots, and ""white chimpanzees"": The Racialization of the Irish in the Nineteenth Century; Part 2. Ireland, Slavery, and Abolition; Chapter 3. ""Come out of such a land, you Irishmen"": Daniel O'Connell, American Slavery, and the Making of the Irish Race |
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Chapter 4. "" The Black O'Connell of the United States"": Frederick Douglass and IrelandPart 3. Ireland and Empire; Chapter 5. ""From the Cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland"": Irish Nationalists, the British Empire, and the ""Boer Fight for Freedom""; Chapter 6. ""Because we are white men"": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish Quest for Self-Government, 1899-1922; Part 4. Ireland and Revolution; Chapter 7. Negro Sinn Féiners and Black Fenians: ""Heroic Ireland"" and the Black Nationalist Imagination |
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Chapter 8. ""The Irish are for freedom everywhere"": Eamon de Valera, the Irish Patriotic Strike, and the ""last white nation ... deprived of its liberty""Epilogue: The Ordeal of the Irish Republic; Notes; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y |
| Summary |
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 races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and the United States, where Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been applied mainly to enslaved Africans and their descendants |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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National characteristics, Irish.
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Irish -- Ethnic identity
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Race -- History
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Nationalism.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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Politics and Government.
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Irish -- Ethnic identity
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National characteristics, Irish
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Race
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Nationalismus
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Ethnische Identität
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Nationalismus.
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Ethnische Identität.
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067989
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Ireland
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Irland.
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Irland.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011047701 |
| ISBN |
9781400842230 |
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1400842239 |
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