The Paddy Camps. The Irish of Lowell 1821-61

By Brian C. Mitchell

Book Overview

Disdained by many Yankee residents as Catholic lowlifes, the growing Irish population of the Lowell, Massachusetts, "paddy camps" in the nineteenth century proved a tempting source of cheap labor for... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0252013719
• ISBN13: 9780252013713
• Release Date: November 1987
• Publisher: University of Illinois Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.5" x 0.8" x 6.5"