Emigrants and Exiles - Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America

The most important book on Irish emigration to appear in a generation...destined to be the monument by which all others are measured..... It has the sinew of scholarship, the strength of extended argument and the intimacy of a correspondence with long lost relatives.

About the author

Kerby A. Miller is Associate Professor of History at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Summary

Covering the massive emigration of some 7 million people from Ireland to the USA between 1660 and the 1900s, this focuses on the thought and behaviour of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, Catholic and Protestant, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, songs, and folklore.

Additional text

Kerby Miller has written what is likely to remain for some time the standard work on Irish emigration to the United States. His book is a prime example of the detailed, myth-shattering Irish historical literature of the 1980s. Both in the quality of its argument and in its vast range of interesting detail it constitutes a considerable achievement.

Product details

• Authors: Kerby A. Miller, Kerby A. (Associate Professor of History Miller, Miller Kerby A.
• Publisher: Oxford Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 23.06.1988
• EAN: 9780195051872
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505187-2
• Dimensions: 153 mm x 229 mm x 33 mm
• Weight: 898 g
• Series: Oxford Paperbacks; Oxford Paperbacks
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; USA, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Emigration & Immigration, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Civics & Citizenship, Anthropology, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, Ireland, c 1500 onwards to present day, Migration, immigration & emigration, Social and cultural history, United States of America, USA, Migration, immigration and emigration, Civil rights & citizenship, Modern Period, C 1500 Onwards, Civics and citizenship, Relating to migrant groups / diaspora communities or peoples