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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “timothy j meagher”
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  • Becoming Irish American

    The Making and Remaking of a People from Roanoke to JFK

    by Timothy J. Meagher ...
    The origins and evolution of Irish American identity, from colonial times through the twentieth centuryAs millions of Irish immigrants and their descendants created community in the United States over the centuries, they neither remained Irish nor simply became American. Instead, they created a culture and defined an identity that was unique to their circumstances, a new people that they would ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • The Columbia Guide to Irish American History

    by Timothy Meagher ...
    Series series Columbia Guides to American History and Cultures
    Once seen as threats to mainstream society, Irish Americans have become an integral part of the American story. More than 40 million Americans claim Irish descent, and the culture and traditions of Ireland and Irish Americans have left an indelible mark on U.S. society. Timothy J. Meagher fuses an overview of Irish American history with an analysis of historians' debates, an annotated bibliography ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Ethnic Historians and the Mainstream

    Shaping America's Immigration Story

    by Alan M. Kraut, David A. Gerber, Virginia Yans, Deborah Dash Moore, John Bodnar, Barbara M. Posadas, Dominic A. Pacyga, Timothy J. Meagher, Judy Yung0, Eileen H. Tamura1, María Cristina Garcia2, Violet M. Showers Johnson3, Theresa Alfaro-Velcamp4 ...
    Do historians “write their biographies” with the subjects they choose to address in their research? In this collection, editors Alan M. Kraut and David A. Gerber compiled eleven original essays by historians whose own ethnic backgrounds shaped the choices they have made about their own research and writing as scholars. These authors, historians of American immigration and ethnicity, revisited ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Irish Americans

    A History

    by Jay P. Dolan ...
    Jay Dolan of Notre Dame University is one of America's most acclaimed scholars of immigration and ethnic history. In THE IRISH AMERICANS, he caps his decades of writing and teaching with this magisterial history of the Irish experience in the United States. Although more than 30 million Americans claim Irish ancestry, no other general account of Irish American history has been published since the ... Read more

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  • Parish Boundaries

    The Catholic Encounter with Race in the Twentieth-Century Urban North

    by John T. McGreevy ...
    Series series Historical Studies of Urban America
    A "remarkable" study of white Catholics and African Americans—and the dynamics between them in New York, Chicago, Boston, and other cities ( The New York Times Book Review).Parish Boundaries chronicles the history of Catholic parishes in major cities such as Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New York, and Philadelphia, melding their unique place in the urban landscape to the course of twentieth century ... Read more

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  • Britain's Black Debt: Reparations for Caribbean Slavery and Native Genocide

    by Hilary McD. Beckles ...
    Britain's Black Debt is the first scholarly work that looks comprehensively at the reparations discussion in the Caribbean. It looks at the origins and development of reparations as a regional and international process. ... Read more

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  • Machine Made

    Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics

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    “Golway’s revisionist take is a useful reminder of the unmatched ingenuity of American politics.”—Wall Street JournalHistory casts Tammany Hall as shorthand for the worst of urban politics: graft and patronage personified by notoriously crooked characters. In his groundbreaking work Machine Made, journalist and historian Terry Golway dismantles these stereotypes, focusing on the many benefits of ... Read more

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  • The British Atlantic Empire Before the American Revolution

    by Glyndwr Williams ...
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  • The Once and Future King

    The Rise of Crown Government in America

    by F. H. Buckley ...
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  • Martin Luther King

    The Civil Rights Movement and the Fight against Segregation

    by 50minutes ...
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    Keen to learn but short on time? Get to grips with the life of Martin Luther King, Jr. in next to no time with this concise guide.50Minutes.com provides a clear and engaging analysis of the life and political activism of Martin Luther King, Jr. In the mid-20th century, black Americans continued to experience widespread segregation and discrimination. This gave rise to a dynamic Civil Rights ... Read more

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  • The Irish Way

    Becoming American in the Multiethnic City

    by James R. Barrett ...
    A lively, street-level history of turn-of-the-century urban life explores the Americanizing influence of the Irish on successive waves of migrants to the American city.In the newest volume in the award-winning Penguin History of American Life series, James R. Barrett chronicles how a new urban American identity was forged in the streets, saloons, churches, and workplaces of the American city. This ... Read more

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