Overview
Irish people have had a long and complex engagement with the lands and waters encompassing the Pacific world. As the European presence in the Pacific intensified from the late eighteenth century, the Irish entered this oceanic space as beachcombers, missionaries, traders, and colonizers. During the nineteenth century, economic distress in Ireland and rapid population growth on the Pacific Ocean's eastern and western shores set in motion large-scale migration that exerted a deep political, social, and economic impact across the Pacific. Malcolm Campbell examines the rich history of Irish experiences on land and at sea, offering new perspectives on migration and mobility in the Pacific world and of the Irish role in the establishment and maintenance of the British Empire. This volume investigates the extensive transnational connections that developed among Irish immigrants and their descendants across this vast and unique oceanic space, ties that illuminate how the Irish participated in the making of the Pacific world and how the Pacific world made them.
Full Product Details
Author: Malcolm Campbell
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Imprint: University of Wisconsin Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 1.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.542kg
ISBN: 9780299334208
ISBN 10: 0299334201
Pages: 296
Publication Date: 30 January 2022
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
"""Campbell's authoritative new book breaks ground in our understanding of the global Irish journey and affords a fresh aperture into transnational experience. His vast and diverse array of stories over the wide history and geographical range of the Pacific Ocean gives us a pathbreaking work of synthetic and comparative history.""--Ronan McDonald, University of Melbourne"
Campbell's authoritative new book breaks ground in our understanding of the global Irish journey and affords a fresh aperture into transnational experience. His vast and diverse array of stories over the wide history and geographical range of the Pacific Ocean gives us a pathbreaking work of synthetic and comparative history. --Ronan McDonald, University of Melbourne
Author Information
Malcolm Campbell is an associate professor of history and head of the School of Humanities at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922.
