Irish nationalists and the making of the Irish race [

Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Nelson, Bruce , 1940- (Author)
Format:	Electronic Book
Language:	English
Published:	Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press , c2012
Series:	This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that ""race is everything"" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the ""native"" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the Irish in the nineteenth century, especially in Britain and the United States, where Irish immigrants were often portrayed in terms that had been applied main
Subjects:	Irish > Ethnic identity National characteristics, Irish Race > History
Online Access:	http://portal.igpublish.com/iglibrary/iviewer/PUPB0001531/userkey/pc/1/0/read.html

Description
Physical Description:	1 online resource : ill.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-322) and index
ISBN:	1400842239 9780691153124 9781400842230

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