Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America / Edition 1

by Kerby A. Miller

Overview

Rich in human detail, penetrating in analysis, this book is social history on an epic scale. The first "transatlantic" history of the Irish, Emigrants and Exiles offers the fullest account yet of the diverse waves of Irish emigration to North America.

Drawing on enormous original research, Miller focuses on the thought and behavior of the "ordinary" Irish emigrants, as revealed in their personal letters, diaries, journals, and memoirs as well as in their songs, poems and folklore. Miller shows that the exile mentality was deeply rooted in Irish history, culture and personality, and it profoundly affected both the traumatic course of modern Irish history and the Irish experience in America.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780195051872
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	01/21/1988
Series:	Oxford Paperbacks
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	704
Sales rank:	381,661
Product dimensions:	9.02(w) x 6.01(h) x 1.29(d)

About the Author

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

Editorial Reviews

"In Emigrants and Exiles, the Irish and Irish-Americans have found a work equal to their history—alive with fact, vivid in detail, exposing and assessing the virtues and vices of being Irish."—Terrence Fitzmorris, Tulane University

"A well-written and extensively researched study....This ambitious work definitely promises to become a basic title for Irish studies."—Ethnic Forum

"Without question Emigrants and Exiles will become a classic in emigration studies and because exile/emigration is so crucial to understanding Ireland it will be a significant text for any study of Irish history."—Journal of American Studies

"This is a book that should be read by anyone with even a passing interest in eighteenth-century Ireland or America."—Eoin Magennis, Eighteenth-Century Ireland

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