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.
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