Irish Nationalists and the Making of the Irish Race

by Bruce Nelson

Book Overview

This is a book about Irish nationalism and how Irish nationalists developed their own conception of the Irish race. Bruce Nelson begins with an exploration of the discourse of race--from the nineteenth--century belief that "race is everything" to the more recent argument that there are no races. He focuses on how English observers constructed the "native" and Catholic Irish as uncivilized and savage, and on the racialization of the Irish in the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691153124
• ISBN13: 9780691153124
• Release Date: May 2012
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"