A Union Forever: The Irish Question and U.S. Foreign Relations in the Victorian Age (The United States in the World)

288 Pages·2013·19.991 MB·English

by  David Sim

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A UNION FOREVER
A volume in the series
The United States in the World
edited by Mark Philip Bradley, David C. Engerman, and Paul A. Kramer
A list of titles in this series is available at www.cornellpress.cornell.edu.
A UNION FOREVER
The Irish Question and U.S. Foreig
Relations in the Victorian Age
David Sim
Cornell University Press
Ithaca and London
Copyright © 2013 by Cornell University
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First pubhshed 2013 by Cornell University Press
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Sim, David, 1985— author.
A union forever: the Irish question and U.S. foreign relations in the
Victorian age / David Sim.
pages cm. — (The United States in the world)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-8014-5184-3 (cloth : alk. paper)
1. United States—Foreign relations—Ireland. 2. Ireland—
Foreign relations—United States. 3. United States—Foreign relations—
Great Britain. 4. Great Britain—Foreign relations—United States.
5. United States—Foreign relations—19th century. 6. Irish question.
7. Ireland—Politics and government—19th century. I.Title.
E183.8.I6S56 2013
327.730417'0903-l—dc23 2013021194
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“What to that redoubted harpooner, John Bull, is poor Ireland, but a Fast-Fish? What to that
apostolic lancer, Brother Jonathan, is Texas but a Fast-Fish? And concerning all these, is not Possession
the whole ojthe law?”
—Herman Melville, Moby Dick (1851)