Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870 - Kay Retzlaff

Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870

Bridget’s Belfast

(Autor)

Buch | Softcover
222 Seiten
2023
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-03507-9 (ISBN)
49,85 inkl. MwSt
This book explains how class, status, and gender affected individual and community perceptions of ethnicity in a rural New England community. It investigates how stereotype—and immigrants' reactions to a variety of negative receptions—helped create new identities on the frontier.
Redefining Irishness in a Coastal Maine City, 1770–1870: Bridget's Belfast examines how Irish immigrants shaped and reshaped their identity in a rural New England community. Forty percent of Irish immigrants to the United States settled in rural areas. Achieving success beyond large urban centers required distinctive ways of performing Irishness. Class, status, and gender were more significant than ethnicity. Close reading of diaries, newspapers, local histories, and public papers allows for nuanced understanding of immigrant lives amid stereotype and the nineteenth century evolution of a Scotch-Irish identity.

Kay Retzlaff is Professor of English at the University of Maine at Augusta.

Prologue 1. Irish in Public 2. Irish Enterprise 3. The Irish "Other" 4. The Irish of Stereotype 5. Irish on the Move 6. Inventing Scotch-Irishness 7. Bridging Social Boundaries 8. Making It Through the War. Epilogue

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Routledge Advances in American History
Zusatzinfo 16 Halftones, black and white; 16 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort London
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 340 g
Themenwelt Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Neuzeit (bis 1918)
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Geschichte Teilgebiete der Geschichte Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10 1-032-03507-2 / 1032035072
ISBN-13 978-1-032-03507-9 / 9781032035079
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