Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914: McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History, cartea 23
Autor Donald Harman Akenson, Don Akensonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2012
This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and why. These two matters, Akenson shows, are intimately related. Ireland and Sweden each provide a tight case study of a larger phenomenon, one that, for better or worse, shaped the modern world: the Great European Diaspora of the "true" nineteenth century. Akenson's book parts company with the great bulk of recent emigration research by employing sharp transnational comparisons and by situating the two case studies in the larger context of the Great European Migration and of what determines the physics of a diaspora: no small matter, as the concept of diaspora has become central to twenty-first-century transnational studies. He argues (against the increasing refusal of mainstream historians to use empirical databases) that the history community still has a lot to learn from economic historians; and, simultaneously, that (despite the self-confidence of their proponents) narrow, economically based explanations of the Great European Migration leave out many of the most important aspects of the whole complex transaction. Akenson believes that culture and economic matters both count, and that leaving either one on the margins of explanation yields no valid explanation at all.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780773539587
ISBN-10: 0773539581
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: McGill-Queen's University Press
Colecția McGill-Queen's University Press
Seria McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
ISBN-10: 0773539581
Pagini: 320
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: McGill-Queen's University Press
Colecția McGill-Queen's University Press
Seria McGill-Queen's Studies in Ethnic History
Recenzii
"...a splendid work that will well reward the attention of anyone interested in the practice of history." Literary Review of Canada
"This monumental study clearly will have a huge impact in the field. Typically of Akenson, an original thinker of the first order, it debunks many myths, half-truths, and lazy assumptions on the part of historians. However, this isn't simply a book which debunks. It isn't a tract or a treatise. Its central contribution is in offering one of the best (perhaps the very best) comparative history of European emigration." Donald MacRaild, Northumbria University
"A remarkable text that weaves statistical analysis with incisive historiographical commentary to produce a lively argument. Summing Up: Highly recommended." Choice
Notă biografică
Donald Harman Akenson is Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University.
Descriere
A comparative history of European emigration.