Making the MexiRican City
To commemorate National Hispanic Heritage Month, this week's review analyzes the community-building and activist practices Mexican and Puerto Rican migrants employed in 20th-century Michigan.
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Irish Social History Since 1740
Learn about Irish social history from geography to the people and culture
Posted on March 12, 2018 in Review of the Week
The Cambridge social history of modern Ireland
ed. by Eugenio F. Biagini and Mary E. Daly Cambridge, 2017
635p bibl index, 9781107095588 $99.99, 9781107479401 $31.99, 9781108229555 $26.00
The 33 essays in this book offer a panoramic view of Irish social history since 1740. The book is divided into three parts—”Geography, Occupations and Social Classes”; “People, Culture and Communities”; and “Emigration, Immigration and the Wider Irish World”—and in concise chapters ( most around 15 pages), the contributors provide substantive and thought-provoking coverage of a remarkable range of subjects, including demography, class, urban and rural life, gender, housing, food, welfare, language, literacy, and education, among many others, supported by numerous figures, maps, and tables. It is striking how often the words “exceptional” or “remarkable” are used in relation to various aspects of Irish society—such as the level of migration, reliance on the potato as staple crop, limited provision for poor relief, shift from the Irish to the English language, and then the effort to preserve Irish—yet Ireland is also viewed in the broad contexts of the British Isles, Europe, and the world. Editors Biagini and Daly have achieved their goal of providing a synthesis of the best recent scholarship in Irish social history, making this excellent book an indispensable resource for teachers, students, and researchers.
Summing Up: Essential. All academic levels/libraries.
Reviewer: A. H. Plunkett, Piedmont Virginia Community College
Subject: Social & Behavioral Sciences – History, Geography & Area Studies – Western Europe
Choice Issue: Mar 2018
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