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CHANGING LAND
Diaspora Activism and the Irish Land War NIALL WHELEHAN How diaspora activism in the Irish land movement intersected with wider radical and reform causes Changing Land offers a new and original study of Irish emigrants’ activism in the United States, Argentina, Scotland, and England and their multifaceted relationships with Ireland. Niall Whelehan brings unfamiliar figures to the surface and recovers the voices of women and men who have been on the margins of, or entirely missing from, existing accounts. Retracing their transnational lives reveals new layers of radical circuitry between Ireland and disparate international locations, and demonstrates how the land movement overlapped with different types of oppositional politics from moderate reform to feminism to revolutionary anarchism. December 2021 224 pages • 6 x 9 Cloth • $30.00S(£22.99) 9781479809554 In The Glucksman Irish Diaspora Series History
Niall Whelehan is Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of Strathclyde and author of The Dynamiters: Irish Nationalism and Political Violence in the Wider World, 1867–1900.
EMPIRE'S NURSERY
Children's Literature and the Origins of the American Century BRIAN ROULEAU How children and children’s literature helped build America’s empire America’s empire was not made by adults alone. During the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, young people became essential to its creation. Through children’s literature, authors instilled the idea of America’s power and the importance of its global prominence. As kids eagerly read dime novels, series fiction, pulp magazines, and comic books that dramatized the virtues of empire, they helped entrench a growing belief in America’s indispensability to the international order. The modern era has been called both the “American Century” and the “Century of the Child.” Brian Rouleau illustrates how those conceptualizations came together by depicting children in their influential role as the junior partners of US imperial enterprise. September 2021 336 pages • 6 x 9 15 black & white illustrations Cloth • $35.00S(£26.99) 9781479804474 History
Brian Rouleau is Associate Professor of History at Texas A&M University. He is the author of With Sails Whitening Every Sea: Mariners and the Making of an American Maritime Empire.
