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Ireland and the British Empire
Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. And British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded in part by Irish experience. But the nature of Ireland's position in the Empire has always been a matter of contentious dispute. Was Ireland a sister kingdom and equal partner in a larger British state? Or was it, because of its proximity and strategic importance, the Empire's mostsubjugated colony? Contemporaries disagreed strongly on these questions, and historians continue to do so. Questions of this sort can only be answered historically: Ireland's relationship with Britain and the Empire ...
Making Sense of the Molly Maguires
A group of 20 Irish immigrants, suspected of comprising a secret terrorist organization called the "Molly Maguires", were executed in Pennsylvania in the 1870s for the murder of 16 men. This work offers a new interpretation of their dramatic story, tracing the origins of the Molly Maguires to Ireland and explaining the growth of a particular structure of meaning.
The American Irish
The American Irish: A History, is the first concise, general history of its subject in a generation. It provides a long-overdue synthesis of Irish-American history from the beginnings of emigration in the early eighteenth century to the present day. While most previous accounts of the subject have concentrated on the nineteenth century, and especially the period from the famine (1840s) to Irish independence (1920s), The American Irish: A History incorporates the Ulster Protestant emigration of the eighteenth century and is the first book to include extensive coverage of the twentieth century. Drawing on the most innovative scholarship from both sides of the Atlantic in the last generation, the book offers an extended analysis of the conditions in Ireland that led to mass migration and examines the Irish immigrant experience in the United States in terms of arrival and settlement, social mobility and assimilation, labor, race, gender, politics, and nationalism. It is ideal for courses on Irish history, Irish-American history, and the history of American immigration more generally.
Peaceable Kingdom Lost
William Penn established Pennsylvania in 1682 as a "holy experiment" in which Europeans and Indians could live together in harmony. In this book, historian Kevin Kenny explains how this Peaceable Kingdom--benevolent, Quaker, pacifist--gradually disintegrated in the eighteenth century, with disastrous consequences for Native Americans. Kenny recounts how rapacious frontier settlers, most of them of Ulster extraction, began to encroach on Indian land as squatters, while William Penn's sons cast off their father's Quaker heritage and turned instead to fraud, intimidation, and eventually violence during the French and Indian War. In 1763, a group of frontier settlers known as the Paxton Boys ext...
Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction
Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction examines the origins of diaspora as a concept, its changing meanings over time, its current popularity, and its utility in explaining human migration. The book proposes a flexible approach to diaspora based on examples drawn mainly from Jewish, African, Irish, and Asian history.
Principles of Problem Solving
Dr. Walter A. Shewhart enunciated a principle about a century ago, probably the most profound statement after the Industrial Revolution. We have yet to unlock its true potential. The book delves into and explores how the principle can be effectively applied to creative and innovative problem-solving to find the root cause quickly and surely. This is a treasure for people who are involved in manufacturing and engineering industry, irrespective of domain, technology and type of industry (Automotive, Electronics, FMCG, Mobile, for example) All organizations improve, it is the speed of improvement that differentiates great organizations from others. This book also brings the power to individuals to learn and educate themselves, instead of depending upon their employers to organize expansive trainings that individuals can ill afford. You can become master of the craft of problem-solving with the help of this book. It explains key principles, theory, logic, and mathematics behind each of them, as well as subtle nuances that should be kept in mind while applying them.
Twelve Months of Romance (May, June, July, August)
May Flowers - An unlikely friendship that turns into an unpredictable love The June Bridesmaid - Betty’s plans for seduction (or revenge) have to be put on hold Fireworks - It's time for Connie to set off some fireworks of her own Dog Days of August - All Jan wants is a puppy for her mother, not the love of her life
The Dynamiters
A transnational history of the first urban bombing campaign, when Irish nationalists targeted symbolic British public buildings in the 1880s.
Baring My Soul
Kenny Thomas shot to fame in 1991 with the multi-platinum-selling album Voices, storming the music charts and the UK soul scene in the process. But what happened next? Read how he went on to do a Bachelor of Science Degree in Oriental Medicine whilst some in the music industry believed he had given everything up to live in a monastery. Then discover how his whole world fell apart when his daughter was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumour and was given just six months to live. Baring My Soul was released in 2021 and is now updated to bring Kenny and Christina's story right up to date as Kenny returns to the live music scene after COVID and there is an unexpected breakthrough for Christina. This is more than just a pop memoir. For the first time and in his own words, this is Kenny's story.
British Decolonisation, 1918-1984
Few subjects have aroused more controversy in recent years than that of empire, and that of the British Empire in particular. Few other subjects are of greater importance to today’s world. How the British Empire was created and maintained, and the impact it had on both the colonised and the colonisers, have been the source of long-running and heated debates amongst historians, politicians and in the media. For several decades it has been analysed from numerous different perspectives, providing a wide range of differing interpretations. Over recent years, new studies have extended the scope of imperial history into previously ignored fields that have significantly added to our understanding...
