King Charles I's execution in January 1649 marked a moment of deliverance for the victors in the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, but for thousands of Royalists it signaled the onset of more than a decade of penury and disillusionment in exile. Driven by an enduring allegiance to the…
"Punjab, 'the pride of British India, ' attracted the cream of the Indian Civil Service, many of the most influential of whom were Irish. Some of these men, along with Irish viceroys, were inspired by their Irish backgrounds to ensure security of tenure for the Punjabi peasant, …
Explains the reasons for the large Irish emigration, and examines the problems they faced adjusting to new lives in the United States.
Introduction: Decentering transatlantic literary studies -- From English empire to British Atlantic world -- The Irish uncanny and the American gothic -- Scots and Scott in the early republic -- Wales and the American West -- The literary sketch and British Atlantic regionalism …
A collection of case histories, used to explore the effect of culture change on the psychological functioning of white Americans who derive from different ethnic backgrounds. This book is designed provide therapists with insights into treating third generation "hyphenated Americ…
A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. …
A drunken Irish maid slips and falls. A greedy Jewish pawnbroker lures his female employee into prostitution. An African American man leers at a white woman. These and other, similar images appeared widely on stages and screens across America during the early twentieth century. …
The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish…
The expansion of the British Empire during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries created the greatest mass migration in human history, in which the Irish and Scots played a central, complex, and controversial role. The essays in this volume explore the diverse encounters Irish…
