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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| Formaat: | Elektronisch E-boek |
| Taal: | Engels |
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Ithaca :
Cornell University Press,
2013.
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| Reeks: | United States in the world.
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| Online toegang: | An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view |
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Inhoudsopgave:
- 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.