Receiving Erin's children : Philadelphia, Liverpool, and the Irish famine migration, 1845-1855 /

"This is not a traditional study of the Irish famine migrants; rather, it is a comparative analysis of how two of the most important host cities - Liverpool and Philadelphia - responded to emerging policy dilemmas in the midst of the Irish famine"--Acknowledgments.

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Main Author: Gallman, J. Matthew
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, ©2000.
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Summary: "This is not a traditional study of the Irish famine migrants; rather, it is a comparative analysis of how two of the most important host cities - Liverpool and Philadelphia - responded to emerging policy dilemmas in the midst of the Irish famine"--Acknowledgments.
Physical Description: xii, 306 pages ; 25 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN: 0807825344
9780807825341
080784845X
9780807848456