| Description |
xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Prologue: Arguing about (the Irish) race -- "The blood of an Irishman": the English construction of the Irish race, 1534-1801 -- Celts, hottentots, and "white chimpanzees": the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century -- "Come out of such a land, you Irishmen": Daniel O'Connell, American slavery, and the making of the Irish race -- "The black O'Connell of the United States": Frederick Douglass and Ireland -- "From the cabins of Connemara to the Kraals of Kaffirland": Irish nationalists, the British Empire, and the "Boer fight for freedom" -- "Because we are white men": Erskine Childers, Jan Christian Smuts, and the Irish quest for self-government, 1899-1922 -- Negro Sinn Féiners and black Fenians: "heroic Ireland" and the black nationalist imagination -- "The Irish are for freedom everywhere": Eamon de Valera, the Irish Patriotic Strike, and the "last white nation, deprived of its liberty." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-322) and index. |
| Subject |
Ireland -- History.
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National characteristics, Irish.
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Irish -- Ethnic identity.
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Race -- History.
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Irish -- Ethnic identity.
(OCoLC)fst00978905
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National characteristics, Irish. (OCoLC)fst01033448
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Race. (OCoLC)fst01086436
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Ireland. (OCoLC)fst01205427
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Nationalismus. (DE-588)4041300-7
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Ethnische Identität. (DE-588)4153096-2
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Nationalismus. (DE-601)106219758
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Ethnische Identität. (DE-601)104571128
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Ireland. (DE-601)10415229X
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Irland.
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| Genre/Form |
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| ISBN |
9780691153124 (hardcover ;) (acid-free paper) |
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0691153124 (hardcover ;) (acid-free paper) |
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