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History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930

History’s Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930

As Ice Age glaciers left behind erratics, so the external forces of history tumbled the Irish into America. Existing both out of time and out of space, a diverse range of these Roman-Catholic immigrants saw their new country in a much different way than did the Protestants who settled and claimed it.

David M. Emmons

  • University of Illinois Press
  • 9780252046094
  • 366 pages
  • €116.40
  • Hardback
  • United States
  • Migration, immigration & emigration