Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815

by Arnold Schrier and Bruce D. Boling

Book Overview

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195154894
• ISBN13: 9780195154894
• Release Date: March 2003
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 3.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 7.1" x 10.1"