Making Sense of the Molly Maguires

Zusatztext Few have ever heard of the Pennsylvanian Molly Maguires. Kevin Kelly certainly makes sense of them in a generously subsidised book which is meticulously researched and referenced! includes enough statistics to support his arguments! and is packed with fascinating details. Klappentext Twenty Irish immigrants! suspected of belonging to a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires! were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since! there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were! what they did! and why theydid it! as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative! Making Sense of the Molly Maguires examines the ideology behind the contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. Atthe same time! this book examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside. Combining social and cultural history! Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were! as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process! it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labor andimmigration. Zusammenfassung A group of 20 Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the "Molly Maguires", were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of 16 men. This work offers a new interpretation of their dramatic story, tracing the origins of the group.

Product details

• Authors: Kevin Kenny, Kevin (Assistant Professor of History Kenny, Kenny Kevin
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.1997
• EAN: 9780195106640
• ISBN: 978-0-19-510664-0
• No. of pages: 348
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Regional and national histories; Non-fiction book > History; USA, Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, European History, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, HISTORY / Europe / Ireland, HISTORY / United States / 19th Century, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, Ireland, 18th century, c 1700 to c 1799, British & Irish history, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas