Twenty Irish immigrants, suspected of belonging to a secret
terrorist organization called the Molly Maguires, were executed in
Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of sixteen men. Ever
since, there has been enormous disagreement over who the Molly
Maguires were, what they did, and why they did it, as virtually
everything we now know about the Molly Maguires is based on the
hostile descriptions of their contemporaries. Arguing that such
sources are inadequate to serve as the basis for a factual
narrative, Kevin Kenny examines the ideology behind contemporary
evidence to explain how and why a particular meaning came to be
associated with the Molly Maguires in Ireland and Pennsylvania. At
the same time, this work examines new archival evidence from
Ireland that establishes that the American Molly Maguires were a
rare transatlantic strand of the violent protest endemic in the
Irish countryside. Combining social and cultural history, Making
Sense of the Molly Maguires offers a new explanation of who the
Molly Maguires were, as well as why people wrote and believed such
curious things about them. In the process, it vividly retells one
of the classic stories of American labor and immigration. In the
twenty-fifth anniversary edition, a new preface reflects on the
original work, immigration and labor history today, and the
enduring memory of the Molly Maguires in American popular culture.
General
| Imprint: |
Oxford UniversityPress
|
| Country of origin: |
United States |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
Kevin Kenny
(Glucksman Professor of History)
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| Dimensions: |
235 x 156mm (L x W) |
| Pages: |
384 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-0-19-767388-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
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| LSN: |
0-19-767388-0 |
| Barcode: |
9780197673881 |
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