Examines how the Irish American community, the American
public, and the American government played a crucial role in the
making of a sovereign independent Ireland
On Easter Day 1916, more than a ...thousand Irishmen stormed Dublin
city center, seizing the General Post Office building and reading
the Proclamation for an independent Irish Republic. The British
declared martial law shortly afterward, and the rebellion was
violently quashed by the military. In a ten-day period after the
event, fourteen leaders of the uprising were executed by firing
squad.
In New York, news of the uprising spread quickly among the
substantial Irish American population. Initially the media blamed
German interference, but eventually news of British-propagated
atrocities came to light, and Irish Americans were quick to
respond.
America and the Making of an Independent Ireland centres
on the diplomatic relationship between Ireland and the United
States at the time of Irish Independence and World War I. Beginning
with the Rising of 1916, Francis M. Carroll chronicles how Irish
Americans responded to the movement for Irish independence and
pressuring the US government to intervene on the side of Ireland.
Carroll's in-depth analysis demonstrates that Irish Americans after
World War I raised funds for the Dáil Éireann government and for
war relief, while shaping public opinion in favor of an independent
nation. The book illustrates how the US government was the first
power to extend diplomatic recognition to Ireland and welcome it
into the international community.
Overall, Carroll argues that the existence of the state of Ireland
is owed to considerable effort and intervention by Irish Americans
and the American public at large.
Major writers from Mexico weigh in on U.S. immigration policy, from harrowing migrant journeys to immigrant detention to the life beyond the wallDespite the extensive coverage in the U.S. media of ...the southern border and Donald Trump's proposed wall, most English speakers have had little access to the multitude of perspectives from Mexico on the ongoing crisis. Celebrated novelist Carmen Boullosa (author of Texas and Before) and Alberto Quintero redress this imbalance with this collection of essaystranslated into English for the first timedrawing on writing by journalists, novelists, and documentary-makers who are Mexican or based in Mexico. Contributors include the award-winning author Valeria Luiselli, whose Tell Me How It Ends is the go-to book on the child migrant crisis, and the novelist Yuri Herrera, author of the highly acclaimed Signs Preceding the End of the World.Let's Talk About Your Wall uses Trump's wall as a starting point to discuss important questions, including the history of U.S.-Mexican relations, and questions of sovereignty, citizenship, and borders. An essential resource for anyone seeking to form a well-grounded opinion on one of the central issues of our day, Let's Talk About Your Wall provides a fierce and compelling counterpoint to the racist bigotry and irrational fear that consumes the debate over immigration, and a powerful symbol of opposition to exclusion and hate.
The American West erupted in anti-Chinese violence in 1885. Following the massacre of Chinese miners in Wyoming Territory, communities throughout California and the Pacific Northwest harassed, ...assaulted, and expelled thousands of Chinese immigrants. Beth Lew-Williams shows how American immigration policies incited this violence and how the violence, in turn, provoked new exclusionary policies. Ultimately, Lew-Williams argues, Chinese expulsion and exclusion produced the concept of the "alien" in modern America. The Chinese Must Go begins in the 1850s, before federal border control established strict divisions between citizens and aliens. Across decades of felling trees and laying tracks in the American West, Chinese workers faced escalating racial conflict and unrest. In response, Congress passed the Chinese Restriction Act of 1882 and made its first attempt to bar immigrants based on race and class. When this unprecedented experiment in federal border control failed to slow Chinese migration, vigilantes attempted to take the matter into their own hands. Fearing the spread of mob violence, U.S. policymakers redoubled their efforts to keep the Chinese out, overhauling U.S. immigration law and transforming diplomatic relations with China.By locating the origins of the modern American alien in this violent era, Lew-Williams recasts the significance of Chinese exclusion in U.S. history. As The Chinese Must Go makes clear, anti-Chinese law and violence continues to have consequences for today's immigrants. The present resurgence of xenophobia builds mightily upon past fears of the "heathen Chinaman."
This book closely scrutinizes the individual and collective roles played by China, the EU and the USA in contemporary world politics.
Examining the three actors’ respective strategic and policy ...positions on and behaviour towards the flux of the contemporary global order, the analysis focuses on three major issues and challenges: foreign and security policy; economics and trade; and climate change and energy. Discussing their relative power, as well as their interests, beliefs and positions on a set of decisive issues, this book explores bilateral relations between the three powers and the ways in which they may interact trilaterally in a broader global context to shape international politics.
Written by a stellar line-up of experts from the fields of politics and international relations, The Evolving Relationship between China, the EU and the USA will be of huge interest to students and scholars from within these fields, as well as policy-makers and practitioners more generally.
Although most Americans paid little attention to Cambodia during Dwight D. Eisenhower's presidency, the nation's proximity to China and the global ideological struggle with the Soviet Union ...guaranteed US vigilance throughout Southeast Asia. Cambodia's leader, Norodom Sihanouk, refused to take sides in the Cold War, a policy that disturbed US officials. From 1953 to 1961, his government avoided the political and military crises of neighboring Laos and South Vietnam. However, relations between Cambodia and the United States suffered a blow in 1959 when Sihanouk discovered CIA involvement in a plot to overthrow him. The coup, supported by South Vietnam and Thailand, was a failure that succeeded only in increasing Sihanouk's power and prestige, presenting new foreign policy challenges in the region.
InEisenhower and Cambodia,William J. Rust examines the United States' efforts to lure Cambodia from neutrality to alliance. He conclusively demonstrates that, as with Laos in 1958 and 1960, covert intervention in the internal political affairs of neutral Cambodia proved to be a counterproductive tactic for advancing the United States' anticommunist goals. Drawing on recently declassified sources, Rust skillfully traces the impact of "plausible deniability" on the formulation and execution of foreign policy. His meticulous study not only reveals a neglected chapter in Cold War history but also illuminates the intellectual and political origins of US strategy in Vietnam and the often-hidden influence of intelligence operations in foreign affairs.
In this compelling narrative of capitalist development and revolutionary response, Jessica M. Kim reexamines the rise of Los Angeles from a small town to a global city against the backdrop of the ...U.S.-Mexico borderlands, Gilded Age economics, and American empire. It is a far-reaching transnational history, chronicling how Los Angeles boosters transformed the borderlands through urban and imperial capitalism at the end of the nineteenth century and how the Mexican Revolution redefined those same capitalist networks into the twentieth.
Kim draws on archives in the United States and Mexico to argue that financial networks emerging from Los Angeles drove economic transformations in the borderlands, reshaped social relations across wide swaths of territory, and deployed racial hierarchies to advance investment projects across the border. However, the Mexican Revolution, with its implicit critique of imperialism, disrupted the networks of investment and exploitation that had structured the borderlands for sixty years, and reconfigured transnational systems of infrastructure and trade. Kim provides the first history to connect Los Angeles's urban expansionism with more continental and global currents, and what results is a rich account of real and imagined geographies of city, race, and empire.
Between 1902 and 1934, the United States confined hundreds of adults and children from dozens of Native nations at the Canton Asylum for Insane Indians, a federal psychiatric hospital in South ...Dakota. But detention at the Indian Asylum, as families experienced it, was not the beginning or end of the story. For them, Canton Asylum was one of many places of imposed removal and confinement, including reservations, boarding schools, orphanages, and prison-hospitals. Despite the long reach of institutionalization for those forcibly held at the Asylum, the tenacity of relationships extended within and beyond institutional walls. In this accessible and innovative work, Susan Burch tells the story of the Indigenous people—families, communities, and nations, across generations to the present day—who have experienced the impact of this history. Drawing on oral history interviews, correspondence, material objects, and archival sources, Burch reframes the histories of institutionalized people and the places that held them. Committed expands the boundaries of Native American history, disability studies, and U.S. social and cultural history generally.
Enables a reckoning with the legacy of the Forgotten War
through literary and cinematic works of cultural
memory
Though often considered "the forgotten war," lost between the end
of World War II and ...the start of the Cold War, the Korean War was,
as Daniel Y. Kim argues, a watershed event that fundamentally
reshaped both domestic conceptions of race and the interracial
dimensions of the global empire that the United States would go on
to establish. He uncovers a trail of cultural artefacts that speaks
to the trauma experienced by civilians during the conflict but also
evokes an expansive web of complicity in the suffering that they
endured.
Taking up a range of American popular media from the 1950s, Kim
offers a portrait of the Korean War as it looked to Americans while
they were experiencing it in real time. Kim expands this archive to
read a robust host of fiction from US writers like Susan Choi,
Rolando Hinojosa, Toni Morrison, and Chang-rae Lee, and the Korean
author Hwang Sok-yong. The multiple and ongoing historical
trajectories presented in these works testify to the resurgent
afterlife of this event in US cultural memory, and of its lasting
impact on multiple racialized populations, both within the US and
in Korea. The Intimacies of Conflict offers a robust,
multifaceted, and multidisciplinary analysis of the pivotal-but
often unacknowledged-consequences of the Korean War in both
domestic and transnational histories of race.
This comparative study focuses on three groups often seen as antagonistic—Blacks, Jews, and Irish. Resolutely aware of past tensions, Bornstein argues that the pendulum has swung too far in that ...direction and that it is time to recover the history of lost connections and cooperation among the groups. The chronological range stretches from Frederick Douglass’s tour of Ireland during the Great Famine of the 1840s through the 1940s with the catastrophe of World War II. The study ends with the concept of the Righteous Gentile commemorated at the Israeli Holocaust Memorial, Yad Vashem--non-Jews who during the Holocaust risked their own lives to rescue Jews from the horror of the Holocaust. Bornstein expands the term here to include all those Irish, Jewish, or African American figures who fought against narrow identification only with their own group and instead championed a wider and more humane vision of a shared humanity that sees hybridity rather than purity and love rather than resentment. The identity politics and culture wars of recent decades often made recognizing those positive qualities problematic. But with the election of a mixed-race president who himself embodies mixture and mutual respect (and who famously described himself as a “mutt"), the shallow and arbitrary nature of narrow identity politics become evident. This study recuperates strong voices from the past of all three groups in order to let them speak for themselves.
An engrossing biography of one of the most influential
filmmakers in cinematic history Kubrick grew up in the
Bronx, a doctor's son. From a young age he was consumed by
photography, chess, and, above ...all else, movies. He was a
self†'taught filmmaker and self†'proclaimed outsider, and his films
exist in a unique world of their own outside the Hollywood
mainstream. Kubrick's Jewishness played a crucial role in his idea
of himself as an outsider. Obsessed with rebellion against
authority, war, and male violence, Kubrick was himself a calm,
coolly masterful creator and a talkative, ever†'curious polymath
immersed in friends and family. Drawing on interviews and new
archival material, Mikics for the first time explores the personal
side of Kubrick's films.
