Under the starry flag : how a band of Irish Americans joined the Fenian revolt and sparked a crisis over citizenship /

Under the starry flag : how a band of Irish Americans joined the Fenian revolt and sparked a crisis over citizenship /

"In 1867 forty Irish-Americans sailed for Ireland to fight against British rule. Claiming that emigrants to America remained British citizens, authorities arrested the men for treason, sparking a crisis and trial that dragged the U.S. and Britain to the brink of war. Lucy Salyer recounts this g...

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Main Author: Salyer, Lucy E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
1800-1899
Citizenship > United States > History > 19th century.
Expatriation > United States > History > 19th century.
Expatriation > Great Britain > History > 19th century.
Irish Americans > History > 19th century.
Fenians.
United States > Foreign relations > 1865-1898.
United States > Foreign relations > Great Britain.
Great Britain > Foreign relations > United States.
History.
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue: Erin's hope and the forgotten right of expatriation
  • Part One. The Fenians and the making of a crisis. Clonakilty, God help us! ; Exiles and expatriates ; The Fenian pest ; Civis Americanus sum
  • Part Two. Citizenship on trial. A floating rebellion ; The voice from the dungeon ; All the world's a stage
  • Part Three. Reconstructing citizenship. Are naturalized Americans, Americans? ; This is a white man's government! ; The politics of expatriation ; Private diplomatizing ; Treating expatriation
  • Epilogue: Exits.

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