Making Sense of the Molly Maguires - Rilegato

Kenny, Kevin

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 0195106644 ISBN 13: 9780195106640

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 1998

Riassunto

Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on hostile descriptions of their contemporaries.

Arguing that such sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual narrative, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires examines the ideology behind the contemporary evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At the same time, this book examines new archival evidence from Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the Irish countryside.

Combining social and cultural history, Making Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one of the classic stories of American labour and immigration.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Kevin Kenny is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195106644
• ISBN 13: 9780195106640
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 348
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
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