History's Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930...

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David M. Emmons

History's Erratics

Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930

David M. Emmons

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University of Illinois Press
22 October 2024

History of the Americas; Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900; Roman Catholicism, Roman Catholic Church; Migration, immigration & emigration; Industrial relations & safety

Series: Working Class in American History

As Ice Age glaciers left behind erratics, so the external forces of history tumbled the Irish into America. Existing both out of time and out of space, a diverse range of these Roman-Catholic immigrants saw their new country in a much different way than did the Protestants who settled and claimed it. These erratics chose backward looking tradition and independence over assimilation and embraced a quintessentially Irish form of subversiveness that arose from their culture, faith, and working-class outlook. David M. Emmons draws on decades of research and thought to plumb the mismatch of values between Protestant Americans hostile to Roman Catholicism and the Catholic Irish strangers among them. Joining ethnicity and faith to social class, Emmons explores the unique form of dissidence that arose when Catholic Irish workers and their sympathizers rejected the beliefs and symbols of American capitalism.

A vibrant and original tour de force, History’s Erratics explores the ancestral roots of Irish nonconformity and defiance in America.

By: David M. Emmons
Imprint: University of Illinois Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 235mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 26mm
Weight: 594g
ISBN: 9780252088193
ISBN 10: 0252088190
Series: Working Class in American History
Pages: 366
Publication Date: 22 October 2024
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgments Introduction: The Characteristics of an Erratic Culture “Ancestral Sorrows”: The Making of an Irish Catholic Culture “And a Fourth There Is Who Wants Me to Dig”: Patsy Caliban and the Limits of American Liberalism A Transnational “Freemasonry of the Disinherited”: The Premaking of an Oppositional Irish American Working Class An Irish Catholic Working Class: The Butte “Rising” of 1917 Celtic Communists: “The Irish Contingent” among America’s Radicals A “People Very unlike Any Other People”: The Irish Catholic Challenge to American Capitalism “The Irish Movement Has Forgotten to Be American”: Woodrow Wilson and the Transatlantic Great Red Green Scare Epilogue. The Durability of Culture: The Erratic ’20s Notes Bibliography Index

David M. Emmons is a professor emeritus of history at the University of Montana. His books include The Butte Irish: Class and Ethnicity in an American Mining Town, 1875–1925 andBeyond the American Pale: The Irish in the West, 1845–1910.

Reviews for History's Erratics: Irish Catholic Dissidents and the Transformation of American Capitalism, 1870-1930

"""This book is remarkably vivid and a delight to read. Emmons's key contribution is to place anti-Catholicism and the resulting Protestant-Catholic division at the center of his analyses of labor, immigration, Irish nationalism, and a host of other issues. A major achievement.""--David Brundage, author of Irish Nationalists in America: The Politics of Exile, 1798-1998"