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Under the Starry Flag

How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship

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$26.00 • £22.95 • €23.95

ISBN 9780674251441

Publication Date: 03/09/2021

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328 pages

6-1/8 x 9-1/4 inches

20 photos

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  • Prologue: Erin’s Hope and the Forgotten Right of Expatriation
  • I. The Fenians and the Making of a Crisis
    • 1. Clonakilty, God Help Us!
    • 2. Exiles and Expatriates
    • 3. The Fenian Pest
    • 4. Civis Americanus Sum
  • II. Citizenship on Trial
    • 5. A Floating Rebellion
    • 6. The Voice from the Dungeon
    • 7. All the World’s a Stage
  • III. Reconstructing Citizenship
    • 8. Are Naturalized Americans, Americans?
    • 9. This Is a White Man’s Government!
    • 10. The Politics of Expatriation
    • 11. Private Diplomatizing
    • 12. Treating Expatriation
  • Epilogue: Exits
  • Notes
  • Acknowledgments
  • Credits
  • Index

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