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Black Powder, White Lace - Margaret M. Mulrooney

Black Powder, White Lace

The du Pont Irish and Cultural Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Buch | Softcover
290 Seiten
2022 | 20th Anniversary
University of Delaware Press (Verlag)
978-1-64453-280-5 (ISBN)
CHF 59,95 inkl. MwSt
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This anniversary edition of Black Powder, White Lace, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, is being published to remind readers of the rich materials on the du Pont workers now publicly available through the Hagley Library and Museum, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America.
Twenty years ago, Margaret Mulrooney's history of the community of Irish immigrant workers at the du Pont powder yards, Black Powder, White Lace, was published to wide acclaim. Now, as much of the materials Mulrooney used in her research are now electronically available to the public, and as debates about immigration continue to rage, a new edition of the book is being published to remind readers of the rich materials available on the du Pont workers, and of Mulrooney's powerful conclusions about immigrant communities in America. Explosives work was dangerous, but the du Ponts provided a host of benefits to their workers. As a result, the Irish remained loyal to their employers, convinced by their everyday experiences that their interests and the du Ponts' were one and the same. Employing a wide array of sources, Mulrooney turns away from the worksite and toward the domestic sphere, revealing that powder mill families asserted their distinctive ethno-religious heritage at the same time as they embraced what U.S. capitalism had to offer.

Margaret Mulrooney is a Professor of History at James Madison University in Harrisonburg, VA. She is the author of Deep Current: Race, Place and Memory in Wilmington, NC (2018) and the editor of Fleeing the Famine: North America and Irish Refugees, 1845-1851 (2003).

Preface to the Anniversary Edition
Acknowledgments to the Anniversary Edition
Introduction
1 Mutual Interests
2 The Ties That Bind
3 A Distinctive Faith
4 The Bean a Ti (Woman of the House)
5 Habitations
6 All the Goods and Chattels
7 Porches, Yards, Gardens, Fences
8 Linen Tablecloths and Lace Curtains
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Cultural Studies of Delaware and the Eastern Shore
Zusatzinfo 35 b-w illus.
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 454 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Makrosoziologie
ISBN-10 1-64453-280-8 / 1644532808
ISBN-13 978-1-64453-280-5 / 9781644532805
Zustand Neuware
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