Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770-1870

Bridget's Belfast
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-032-03506-2
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 234 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in American History

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers required distinctive ways of performing Irishness. Class, status, and gender were more significant than ethnicity. Close reading of diaries, newspapers, local histories, and public papers allows for nuanced understanding of immigrant lives amid stereotype and the nineteenth century evolution of a Scotch-Irish identity.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Retzlaff, Kay

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Prologue 1. Irish in Public 2. Irish Enterprise 3. The Irish "Other" 4. The Irish of Stereotype 5. Irish on the Move 6. Inventing Scotch-Irishness 7. Bridging Social Boundaries 8. Making It Through the War. Epilogue

Über Autor(innen)

Kay Retzlaff is Professor of English at the University of Maine at Augusta.