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Irish immigrants in the land of Canaan : letters and memoirs from colonial and revolutionary America, 1675-1815 /

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Publisher's description: Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to America. Through exhaustive research and analysis of the migrants' letters and memoirs, the editors explore why the immigrants left Ireland, how they...

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Corporate Author: NetLibrary, Inc
Other Authors: Miller, Kerby A.
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2003.
Subjects:
Irish Americans > History > Sources.
Irish Americans > Biography.
Immigrants > United States > History > Sources.
Immigrants > United States > Biography.
United States > History > Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775 > Biography.
United States > History > Revolution, 1775-1783 > Biography.
United States > History > 1783-1865 > Biography.
Electronic books.
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Summary:Publisher's description: Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic immigration to America. Through exhaustive research and analysis of the migrants' letters and memoirs, the editors explore why the immigrants left Ireland, how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, and how their experiences and attitudes shaped society, culture and politics, and created modern Irish and Irish-American identities, in America and Ireland alike.
Item Description:Electronic resource.
Physical Description:xxvii, 788 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 687-764) and index.
ISBN:1423707729 (electronic bk.)