Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675-1815 (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780195045130)

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan is a monumental and pathbreaking study of early Irish Protestant and Catholic migration to America. Through exhaustive research and sensitive analyses of the letters, memoirs, and other writings, the authors describe the variety and vitality of early Irish immigrant experiences, ranging from those of frontier farmers and seaport workers to revolutionaries and loyalists. Largely through the migrants own words, it brings to life the networks, work, and experiences of these immigrants who shaped the formative stages of American society and its Irish communities. The authors explore why Irishmen and women left home and how they adapted to colonial and revolutionary America, in the process creating modern Irish and Irish-American identities on the two sides of the Atlantic Ocean.

Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan was the winner of the James S. Donnelly, Sr., Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences, American Council on Irish Studies.

Author: Kerby a. Miller
ISBN-10: 0195045130
ISBN-13: 9780195045130
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2003
Pages: 816
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 3.44lbs
Size: 10.10h x 6.98w x 1.64d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2004 pg. 974