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The Green and the Gray: The Irish in the Confederate States of America
Contributor(s): Gleeson, David T. (Author)
ISBN: 1469627248     ISBN-13: 9781469627243
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
OUR PRICE:   $30.88  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: February 2016
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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- History | United States - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
- History | Military - United States
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies - General
Dewey: 973.742
LCCN: 2013009241
Series: Civil War America
Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.23" W x 9.27" (1.05 lbs) 328 pages
Themes:
- Ethnic Orientation - Irish
- Chronological Period - 1851-1899
- Cultural Region - Ireland
- Topical - Civil War
- Cultural Region - South
 
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Publisher Description:
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.


Contributor Bio(s): Gleeson, David T.: - David T. Gleeson is professor of American history at Northumbria University in Newcastle upon Tyne, England.