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The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century

The Irish and the Imagination of Race: White Supremacy across the Atlantic in the Nineteenth Century

Analyses the role of Irishness in nineteenth-century constructions of race and racialization, both in the British Isles and in the United States, focusing on the years immediately preceding the American Civil War.

Patrick R. O'Malley

  • University of Virginia Press
  • 9780813950570
  • 320 pages
  • €119.00
  • Hardback
  • United States
  • Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900