Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-284) and index.
Contents:
Introduction -- Prologue : Colonial New York -- The New York Irish in the New Republic -- Irish famine and American nativism -- The Civil War and the draft riots of 1863 -- The road to respectability -- Conclusion.
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