Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815?1922

by Malcolm Campbell

Book Overview

In the century between the Napoleonic Wars and the Irish Civil War, more than seven million Irish men and women left their homeland to begin new lives abroad. While the majority settled in the United States, Irish emigrants dispersed across the globe, many of them finding their way to another "New World," Australia.
Ireland's New Worlds is the first book to compare Irish immigrants in the United States and Australia. In a profound challenge...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299223345
• ISBN13: 9780299223342
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 0.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 9.0"