Ireland's Farthest Shores: Mobility, Migration, and Settlement in the Pacific World

by Malcolm Campbell

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299334201
• ISBN13: 9780299334208
• Release Date: January 2022
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"