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Under the Starry Flag : How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship
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Title
Under the Starry Flag : How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship / Lucy E. Salyer.
ISBN
9780674989214
Publication
Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2018]
Copyright Notice Date
©2018
Physical Description
1 online resource (338 p.)
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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In English.
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Summary
In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this gripping tale, a prelude to today's immigration battles.
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De Gruyter University Press eBook pilot project 2018.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 09, 2022
Contents
Frontmatter
Contents
Prologue: Erin's Hope and the Forgotten Right of Expatriation
Part One: The Fenians and the Making of a Crisis
1. Clonakilty, God Help Us!
2. Exiles and Expatriates
3. The Fenian Pest
4. Civis Americanus Sum
Part Two: Citizenship on Trial
5. A Floating Rebellion
6. The Voice from the Dungeon
7. All the World's a Stage
Part Three: Reconstructing Citizenship
8. Are Naturalized Americans, Americans?
9. This Is a White Man's Government!
10. The Politics of Expatriation
11. Private Diplomatizing
12. Treating Expatriation
Epilogue: Exits
Notes
Acknowledgments
Credits
Index
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