The Boer Fight For Freedom

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Genre : South African War, 1899-1902
Author : Michael Davitt
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Release : 1902
File : 638 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105119362031


Michael Davitt

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This short biography outlines the scope of Davitt's great interests and achievements

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Genre : History
Author : Carla King
Publisher : University College Dublin Press
Release : 2009
File : 144 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781910820964


Lives Of Victorian Political Figures Ii Michael Davitt

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Genre : Great Britain
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Release : 2007
File : 506 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105130508612


Davitt

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : Bernard O'Hara
Publisher : TUDOR GATE PRESS
Release : 2010-06-14
File : 223 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780980166026


The Irish In The Atlantic World

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A new vision of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present. The Irish in the Atlantic World presents a transnational and comparative view of the Irish historical and cultural experiences as phenomena transcending traditional chronological, topical, and ethnic paradigms. Edited by David T. Gleeson, this collection of essays offers a robust new vision of the global nature of the Irish diaspora within the Atlantic context from the eighteenth century to the present and makes original inroads for new research in Irish studies. These essays from an international cast of scholars vary in their subject matter from investigations into links between Irish popular music and the United States—including the popularity of American blues music in Belfast during the 1960s and the influences of Celtic balladry on contemporary singer Van Morrison—to a discussion of the migration of Protestant Orangemen to America and the transplanting of their distinctive non-Catholic organizations. Other chapters explore the influence of American politics on the formation of the Irish Free State in 1922, manifestations of nineteenth-century temperance and abolition movements in Irish communities, links between slavery and Irish nationalism in the formation of Irish identity in the American South, the impact of yellow fever on Irish and black labor competition on Charleston's waterfront, the fate of the Irish community at Saint Croix in the Danish West Indies, and other topics. These multidisciplinary essays offer fruitful explanations of how ideas and experiences from around the Atlantic influenced the politics, economics, and culture of Ireland, the Irish people, and the societies where Irish people settled. Taken collectively, these pieces map the web of connectivity between Irish communities at home and abroad as sites of ongoing negotiation in the development of a transatlantic Irish identity.

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Genre : History
Author : David T. Gleeson
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Release : 2012-11-16
File : 534 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781611172201


The White Man S World

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Memories of Empire is a trilogy which explores the complex, subterranean political currents which emerged in English society during the years of postwar decolonization. Bill Schwarz shows that, through the medium of memory, the empire was to continue to possess strange afterlives long after imperial rule itself had vanished. The White Man's World, the first volume in the trilogy, explores ideas of the white man as they evolved during the time of the British Empire, from the mid-nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century, looking particularly at the transactions between the colonies and the home society of England. The story works back from the popular response to Enoch Powell's 'Rivers of Blood' speech in 1968, in which identifications with racial whiteness came to be highly charged. Driving this new racial politics, Bill Schwarz proposes, were unappeased memories of Britain's imperial past. The White Man's World surveys the founding of the so-called white colonies, looking in particular at Australia, South Africa, and Rhodesia, and argues that it was in this experience that contemporary meanings of racial whiteness first cohered. These colonial nations - 'white men's countries', as they were popularly known - embodied the conviction that the future of humankind lay in the hands of white men. The systems of thought which underwrote the ideas of the white man, and of the white man's country, worked as a form of ethnic populism, which gave life to the concept of Greater Britain. But if during the Victorian and Edwardian period the empire was largely narrated in heroic terms, in the masculine mode, by the time of decolonization in the 1960s racial whiteness had come to signify defeat and desperation, not only in the colonies but in the metropole too. Identifications with racial whiteness did not disappear in England in the moment of decolonization: they came alive again, fuelled by memories of what whiteness had once represented, recalling the empire as a lost racial utopia.

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Genre : History
Author : Bill Schwarz
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Release : 2011-10-27
File : 600 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780191619953


Lives Of Victorian Political Figures Part Ii Volume 3

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Looks at the lives and politics of four of the key players in the independence and labour movements of the 19th century: Daniel O'Connell (1775-1847); Charles Stewart Parnell (1846-91); Michael Davitt (1846-1906); and James Bronterre O'Brien (1805-64). Volume 3 looks at the life of Michael Davitt.

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Genre : Literary Criticism
Author : Nancy LoPatin-Lummis
Publisher : Routledge
Release : 2021-03-24
File : 484 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781000420814


Irish Nationalists And The Making Of The Irish Race

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This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and the United States, where Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been applied mainly to enslaved Africans and their descendants. Most of the book focuses on how the Irish created their own identity--in the context of slavery and abolition, empire, and revolution. Since the Irish were a dispersed people, this process unfolded not only in Ireland, but in the United States, Britain, Australia, South Africa, and other countries. Many nationalists were determined to repudiate anything that could interfere with the goal of building a united movement aimed at achieving full independence for Ireland. But others, including men and women who are at the heart of this study, believed that the Irish struggle must create a more inclusive sense of Irish nationhood and stand for freedom everywhere. Nelson pays close attention to this argument within Irish nationalism, and to the ways it resonated with nationalists worldwide, from India to the Caribbean.

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Genre : History
Author : Bruce Nelson
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Release : 2013-12-26
File : 349 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780691161969


Bulletin Of Military Notes

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Bulletins cover various military topics for selected foreign countries, with data on naval shipbuilding, military forces, defense budgets, artillery, target practice, foreign currencies, and weights and measures.

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Genre : Armies
Author : United States. War Department. General Staff
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Release : 1904
File : 852 Pages
ISBN-13 : STANFORD:36105127306533


Forgotten Protest

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McCracken (history and humanities, U. of Durban-Westville, South Africa) illuminates the contact between Ireland and South Africa in the age of high imperialism, and the interest aroused in Ireland by developments in South Africa and their effects on Irish politics of the time. The first edition was

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Genre : History
Author : Donal P. McCracken
Publisher : Ulster Historical Foundation
Release : 2003
File : 244 Pages
ISBN-13 : 1903688183