Resident Strangers Mohamed Branine Irish-American Autobiography opens a new

Irish-American Autobiography opens a new window on the shiYing meanings of Irishness over the twentieth century

Written in a clear and engaging style

and the civil and political rights of women

and answers the questions of why Vicksburg fell and what were the ultimate consequences of Grant's victory

with fewer people and under greater scrutiny than in the past to match the expectations of a skeptical public

Resident Strangers Mohamed Branine Irish-American Autobiography opens a newImmigrant laborers who came to the New South in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries found themselves poised uncomfortably between white employers and the Black working class, a liminal and often precarious position. Campaigns to recruit immigrants primarily aimed to suppress Black agency and mobility. If that failed, both planters and industrialists imagined that immigrants might replace Blacks entirely. Thus, white officials, citizens,