Irish in the South 1815 1877 or In the Path of Hizbullah

Irish in the South, 1815-1877

Author: David T Gleeson

The only comprehensive study of Irish immigrants in the nineteenth-century South, this book makes a valuable contribution to the story of the Irish in America and to our understanding of southern culture.

Lawrence J. McCaffrey

David T. Gleeson demonstrates that Irish America comes in different shades of green. In his perceptive, well-researched, and readable The Irish in the South, 1815-1877 he reveals its regional diversity.

Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: The Forgotten People of the Old South	1
Ch. 1	The Irish Diaspora	10
Ch. 2	Urban Pioneers in the Old South	23
Ch. 3	Earning a Living	38
Ch. 4	Family, Community, and Ethnic Awareness	55
Ch. 5	Keeping the Faith	74
Ch. 6	The Irish, the Natives, and Politics	94
Ch. 7	The Know-Nothing Challenge	107
Ch. 8	Slavery, State Rights, and Secession	121
Ch. 9	The Green and the Gray	141
Ch. 10	Irish Confederates	158
Ch. 11	Postwar Integration	173
	Conclusion: Irish Southerners	187
	Occupational Status Classification	195
	Notes	197
	Selected Bibliography	239
	Index	269

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In the Path of Hizbullah

Author: ANizar Hamzeh

This book serves as a road map for understanding not only Hizbullah but also other Islamist groups and their challenges to contemporary politics. Ahmad Nizar Hamzeh examines the Hizbullah of Lebanon through a structural analysis using original and archival sources. Employing a theoretical framework drawing on a broad range of studies on crisis conditions, leadership, political parties, and guerrilla warfare, In the Path of Hizbullah stands alone in its qualitative and quantitative exploration of one of the most complex contemporary Islamist organizations and offers a thoughtful perspective on the party's future.

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What makes Hamzeh's book unique is that it focuses not so much on Hizbullah's ideology but on its complex, sophisticated organizational structure. More than anything else, it is Hizbullah's structure that guides its operational choices and explains the inner workings of the organization's structural components. This illuminating and timely book looks objectively at the dynamics of one of the most important yet least understood forces in contemporary Lebanon and the Middle East. . . . Essential.