Beyond the American Pale

by Emmons, David M.

• ISBN13: 9780806141282
• ISBN10: 080614128X
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-09-01
• Publisher: Univ of Oklahoma Pr

Summary

Examines this multifaceted experience of the American Irish and offers a fresh and discerning account of America's westward expansion.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The American Pale	p. 1
Unwelcome Strangers: The Irish and the American West
From Ireland to America's Mythic West: William L. O'Brien's Working-Class Grand Tour	p. 15
Irrepressible Conflict: Systems of Slavery in the Civil War Era	p. 44
Slavery, the Irish, and Western America	p. 76
Most Unlikely Westerners	p. 107
Savage Twins: Indians and Irish on the Border	p. 138
An Alternate Frontier: The Irish in the American West
Border Wars: Clustered Irish across the Meridian	p. 175
Finding a ôFair Livingö: Patterns of Irish Migration and Settlement in the West	p. 210
The Worlds the Irish Made: Transplanting the Townlands to Western America	p. 250
An Alternate Frontier: The Irish Strain in Labor's Western American Heartland	p. 287
Epilogue: A Different Kind of West	p. 336
Appendix: Western Communities That Sent Contributions to Support Irish Nationalism (1880-1882, 1905)	p. 351
Notes	p. 357
Bibliography	p. 401
Acknowledgments	p. 459
Index	p. 463
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