Ireland's Imperial Connections, 1775-1947

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Roberts, Daniel Sanjiv (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Wright, Jonathan Jeffrey (Επιμελητής έκδοσης, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Έκδοση: 1st ed. 2019.
• Σειρά: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series
• Θέματα: Imperialism.; Great Britain-History.; Literature-History and criticism.; British literature.; World history.; Imperialism and Colonialism.; History of Britain and Ireland.; Literary History.; British and Irish Literature.; World History, Global and Transnational History.

This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain's imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the de...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• 1. Introduction - Daniel Sanjiv Roberts and Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
• I Inhabiting Empire
• 2. "Residing in this Distant Portion of the Great Empire": The Irish in Imperial Halifax, Nova Scotia - Peter Ludlow and Terrence Murphy
• 3. From Enniskillen to Nairobi: The Coles in British East Africa - Eve Patten
• 4. Walking to China: Infatuation and the Irish in New South Wales - Killian Quigley
• 5. Competing Narratives: 'White Slavery', Servitude and the Irish in Late Eighteenth-Century America - Martyn Powell
• II Writing/ Imagining Empire
• 6. "Humble Obedience to the Will of Heaven": Charles Johnston's Providential and Migratory Sensibility - Daniel Sanjiv Roberts
• 7. Prudence and Prejudice in Maria Edgeworth's "Murad the Unlucky" (1804) - Sonja Lawrenson
• 8. "Purely a Local Study"?: Narratives of Empire in George Benn's History of the Town of Belfast - Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
• III Resistance/Collusion
• 9. The 1857 Indian Uprising in Irish Ballads: Voices of the Subaltern - Sarah Raphaela Adjobimey
• 10. Afghanistan, the Indian "Mutiny," and the Bicultural Stereotype of John Nicholson- Pramod K. Nayar
• 11. Violent Resistance: The Irish Revolution and India - Kate O'Malley
• IV Networking
• 12. Stateless and Destitute: The O'Rourke Family of Saint-Domingue, Nantes and Wexford, 1788-1805 - Orla Power
• 13. An Irish Surgeon in Barbados and Demerara: Vexation, Misery and Opportunity - Jennifer McLaren
• 14. "Colouring the map red": Lady Hariot Dufferin and the Imperial Networks of the Dufferin Fund - Sarah Hunter.-.