Gleeson, David (2013) The Green and the Gray: the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Civil War America . The University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA. ISBN 9781469607566
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Why did many Irish Americans, who did not have a direct connection to slavery, choose to fight for the Confederacy? This perplexing question is at the heart of David T. Gleeson's sweeping analysis of the Irish in the Confederate States of America. Taking a broad view of the subject, Gleeson considers the role of Irish southerners in the debates over secession and the formation of the Confederacy, their experiences as soldiers, the effects of Confederate defeat for them and their emerging ethnic identity, and their role in the rise of Lost Cause ideology.
Focusing on the experience of Irish southerners in the years leading up to and following the Civil War, as well as on the Irish in the Confederate army and on the southern home front, Gleeson argues that the conflict and its aftermath were crucial to the integration of Irish Americans into the South. Throughout the book, Gleeson draws comparisons to the Irish on the Union side and to southern natives, expanding his analysis to engage the growing literature on Irish and American identity in the nineteenth-century United States.
| Item Type: | Book |
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| Subjects: | T700 American studies V300 History by topic |
| Department: | Faculties > Arts, Design and Social Sciences > Humanities |
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| Depositing User: | Ay Okpokam |
| Date Deposited: | 21 Jun 2013 09:43 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Oct 2017 08:28 |
| URI: | http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/13064 |
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