Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration: 1815-1914

by Donald Harman Akenson

Book Overview

This book is the product of Donald Akenson's decades of research and writing on Irish social history and its relationship to the Irish diaspora - it is also the product of a lifetime of trying to figure out where Swedish-America actually came from, and why. These two matters, Akenson shows, are intimately related. Ireland and Sweden each provide a tight case study of a larger phenomenon, one that, for better or worse, shaped the modern world: the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1846317509
• ISBN13: 9781846317507
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 320 Pages