Antebellum Irish immigration and emerging ideologies of "America"
Subtitle: a Protestant backlash
By: Robert Dunne.
Series: Studies in American history ;; v. 41; Studies in American history (Lewiston, N.Y.) ;; v. 41.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Lewiston, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 148
Subjects: Catholic Church -- Relations -- Protestant churches; Irish Americans -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Catholics -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Immigrants -- United States -- Social conditions -- 19th century; Protestant churches -- Relations -- Catholic Church; Protestants -- United States -- Attitudes -- History -- 19th century; National characteristics, American; Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Emigration and immigration -- History -- 19th century; United States -- Ethnic relations
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 131-144) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Chapter 1: American Ideology and the American Dream 5; title: Chapter 2: Justifying the "Bible in the Counting House" for; title: Mainstream Americans 11; title: Chapter 3: "The Enemy Is Here, and in Our Midst": The Protestant Backlash; title: against Irish Catholic Immigration 33; title: Chapter 4: Resisting America's Devilish Temptations: Willy Burke and; title: The Cross and the Shamrock 73; title: Chapter 5: The Process of Fitting into the "Main Cultural Stream": The Irish; title: Catholic Presence in Connecticut 85; title: Chapter 6: Coda / Irish American Culture in a Multicultural Curriculum:; title: No Irish Need Apply? 109.