Product Description: This collection of essays demonstrates in vivid detail how a range of formal and informal networks shaped the Irish experience of emigration, settlement and the construction of ethnic identity in a variety of geographical contexts since 1750...read more

Product Description: After 1600, English emigration became one of Europe's most significant population movements. Yet compared to what has been written about the migration of Scots and Irish, relatively little energy has been expended on the numerically more significant English flows...read more

Reflects the changing nature of the discipline of history. This book includes different forms of history, including popular and TV histories. It offers advice on writing essays and dissertations and preparing for exams.

Product Description: Despite its prominence, the Irish political group the Orange Order has never been the focus of significant scholarly attention. With Faith, Fraternity and Fighting, Donald MacRaild provides the first serious full-length study of the Orange Order in northern England...read more

Product Description: The expansion of social history that took place in the twentieth century has produced some of the most exciting works in the field of historical studies. As the range of the social historian's concerns has grown, so has the range of methodologies and theoretical approaches they employ...read more

Product Description: The nineetenth century was a period of striking developments, and subject to a great pressure of change. This process of change is the primary focus of the book. Organised into a series of thematic chapters, Black and MacRaild's wide-ranging text offers the reader an analysis of numerous spheres of human history: politics, empire and warfare; economy, society and population; religion and culture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: ëThe Great Famine and Beyond presents some of the most important findings. Many of the essays in this collection challenge the assumption that the Irish assimilated relatively easily into British society: reports of ìethnic fadeî have been exaggerated...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Ireland was unique among European countries in having a smaller population at the beginning of the 20th century than it had 100 years previously. This demographic decline was prompted by a series of social and economic factors, and emigration became so common that by 1891 forty percent of all the world's Irish-born were living outside Ireland...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)