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The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War, by Mark
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About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823262235
ISBN-13
9780823262236
eBay Product ID (ePID)
203654480
Product Key Features
Book Title
Sons of Molly Maguire : the Irish Roots of America's First Labor War
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
Mining, Labor & Industrial Relations, United States / State & Local / Middle Atlantic (DC, De, Md, NJ, NY, Pa), Sociology / General, Folklore & Mythology
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Political Science, Technology & Engineering, Social Science, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
25.5 Oz
Item Length
9.3 in
Item Width
6.8 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN
2014-029715
Reviews
"Mark Bulik's The Hidden River is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory, but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuous legacy extending into the present." --James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin "With deft writing and impressive research, Mark Bulik offers a new explanation for a conflict that shook the very foundations of post-Civil War America. The Molly Maguires were at the center of America's first great labor war, but as Bulik shows, the first shots of that war were fired not in northeastern Pennsylvania, but in the fields and villages of Ireland."--Terry Golway, author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics "Mark Balik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is an engaging and enlightening work of historical research and scholarship. As well as bring into focus the Mollies' role in giving America its first taste of class warfare, Balik's incisive and original explorations sweep aside myths, legends, half-truths, and untruths. He significantly deepens our understanding of these flesh-and blood laborers, who they were, where they came from, and how their struggle resonated through the labor movement in the United States. Thoughtful, insightful and unfailing fair, The Sons of the Molly Maguires is history at its best."--Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America, With deft writing and impressive research, Mark Bulik offers a new explanation for a conflict that shook the very foundations of post-Civil War America. The Molly Maguires were at the center of America's first great labor war, but as Bulik shows, the first shots of that war were fired not in northeastern Pennsylvania, but in the fields and villages of Ireland. -----Terry Golway, author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics, Mark Bulik's 'The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War' is a work of considerable scholarship, which carefully unpicks the tightly braided strands of ethnic, labor and party politics in the mid-nineteenth-century coal fields, especially the west branch of Schuylkill County. Drawing on the extensive research, he illuminates the competition between the Irish and other immigrant groups, and, most interestingly, the regional, class and generation tensions within the Irish community itself. -----Breandan Mac Suibhne, Dublin Review of Books, "Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuing legacy extending into the present." --James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin, "Mark Bulik's The Hidden River is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory, but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuous legacy extending into the present." --James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin "With deft writing and impressive research, Mark Bulik offers a new explanation for a conflict that shook the very foundations of post-Civil War America. The Molly Maguires were at the center of America's first great labor war, but as Bulik shows, the first shots of that war were fired not in northeastern Pennsylvania, but in the fields and villages of Ireland."--Terry Golway, author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics "Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is an engaging and enlightening work of historical research and scholarship. As well as bring into focus the Mollies' role in giving America its first taste of class warfare, Bulik's incisive and original explorations sweep aside myths, legends, half-truths, and untruths. He significantly deepens our understanding of these flesh-and blood laborers, who they were, where they came from, and how their struggle resonated through the labor movement in the United States. Thoughtful, insightful and unfailing fair, The Sons of the Molly Maguires is history at its best."--Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America "Bulik's work is the rare combination of meticulous research and a story well told. Many works tackle the enigma of the Molly Maguires but few pay as close attention to their Irish historical and cultural roots. This is a richly contextual study that expands our understanding of a complicated subject."--Robert M. Sandow, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania, "Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuing legacy extending into the present." -----James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin, "Mark Bulik's The Hidden River is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory, but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuous legacy extending into the present." --James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin "With deft writing and impressive research, Mark Bulik offers a new explanation for a conflict that shook the very foundations of post-Civil War America. The Molly Maguires were at the center of America's first great labor war, but as Bulik shows, the first shots of that war were fired not in northeastern Pennsylvania, but in the fields and villages of Ireland."--Terry Golway, author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics, "Mark Bulik's The Hidden River is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory, but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuous legacy extending into the present." --James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin "With deft writing and impressive research, Mark Bulik offers a new explanation for a conflict that shook the very foundations of post-Civil War America. The Molly Maguires were at the center of America's first great labor war, but as Bulik shows, the first shots of that war were fired not in northeastern Pennsylvania, but in the fields and villages of Ireland."--Terry Golway, author of Machine Made: Tammany Hall and the Creation of Modern American Politics "Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is an engaging and enlightening work of historical research and scholarship. As well as bring into focus the Mollies' role in giving America its first taste of class warfare, Bulik's incisive and original explorations sweep aside myths, legends, half-truths, and untruths. He significantly deepens our understanding of these flesh-and blood laborers, who they were, where they came from, and how their struggle resonated through the labor movement in the United States. Thoughtful, insightful and unfailing fair, The Sons of the Molly Maguires is history at its best."--Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America "Bulik's work is the rare combination of meticulous research and a story well told. Many works tackle the enigma of the Molly Maguires but few pay as close attention to their Irish historical and cultural roots. This is a richly contextual study that expands our understanding of a complicated subject."--Robert M. Sandow, Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania "Mark Bulik's 'The Sons of Molly Maguire: The Irish Roots of America's First Labor War' is a work of considerable scholarship, which carefully unpicks the tightly braided strands of ethnic, labor and party politics in the mid-nineteenth-century coal fields, especially the west branch of Schuylkill County. Drawing on the extensive research, he illuminates the competition between the Irish and other immigrant groups, and, most interestingly, the regional, class and generation tensions within the Irish community itself." -Dublin Review of Books, Mark Bulik's The Sons of Molly Maguire is an engaging and enlightening work of historical research and scholarship. As well as bring into focus the Mollies' role in giving America its first taste of class warfare, Bulik's incisive and original explorations sweep aside myths, legends, half-truths, and untruths. He significantly deepens our understanding of these flesh-and blood laborers, who they were, where they came from, and how their struggle resonated through the labor movement in the United States. Thoughtful, insightful and unfailing fair, The Sons of the Molly Maguire is history at its best. -----Peter Quinn, author of Looking for Jimmy: A Search for Irish America, "Mark Bulik's The Hidden River is a superb work of scholarship. Focused on origins, this work situates the Irish emergence and American persistence of the Molly Maguires in all of their considerable complexity, while likewise ably revealing not only the crucial developments of the 1870s that have embedded the Mollies in American memory, but also the factors contributing to the Mollies' continuous legacy extending into the present." --James P. Leary, University of Wisconsin, Bulik's unfailingly interesting book has a fascinating story to tell. His analysis of the Irish roots of the Mollies is excellent and in line with the tendency of US historiography to extend analysis beyond the borders of the nation. His accounts of the battles between the Mollies and the forces of law and order in Schuylkill county are well-written ... he does a service in stripping away some of the grey mist from the Mollies. This book will appeal to both a general and an academic audience.
Dewey Edition
23
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
364.10609748
Table Of Content
PART I Introduction : The Fountainhead 3 1 "A Slumbering Volcano" 10 PART II 2 The Black Pig's Realm 25 3 The Secret Societies 44 4 Land and Politics 62 5 The Molly Maguires 77 PART III 6 Brotherly Love 109 7 The Hibernians 122 8 Another Ulster 139 9 Resurrection 166 10 "Brave Sons of Molly" 183 11 Mars in Mahantango 193 12 "A Damned Hard Hole" 203 13 "A Howling Wilderness" 221 14 Parting Shots 235 15 The Road to Black Thursday 254 16 Shadows of the Gunmen 288 Notes 319 Index 357 Illustrations follow page 182
Synopsis
Sensational tales of true-life crime, the devastation of the Irish potato famine, the upheaval of the Civil War, and the turbulent emergence of the American labor movement are connected in a captivating exploration of the roots of the Molly Maguires. A secret society of peasant assassins in Ireland that re-emerged in Pennsylvania's hard-coal region, the Mollies organized strikes, murdered mine bosses, and fought the Civil War draft. Their shadowy twelve-year duel with all powerful coal companies marked the beginning of class warfare in America. But little has been written about the origins of this struggle and the folk culture that informed everything about the Mollies. A rare book about the birth of the secret society, The Sons of Molly Maguire delves into the lost world of peasant Ireland to uncover the astonishing links between the folk justice of the Mollies and the folk drama of the Mummers, who performed a holiday play that always ended in a mock killing. The link not only explains much about Ireland's Molly Maguires--where the name came from, why the killers wore women's clothing, why they struck around holidays--but also sheds new light on the Mollies' re-emergence in Pennsylvania. The book follows the Irish to the anthracite region, which was transformed into another Ulster by ethnic, religious, political, and economic conflicts. It charts the rise there of an Irish secret society and a particularly political form of Mummery just before the Civil War, shows why Molly violence was resurrected amid wartime strikes and conscription, and explores how the cradle of the American Mollies became a bastion of later labor activism. Combining sweeping history with an intensely local focus, The Sons of Molly Maguire is the captivating story of when, where, how, and why the first of America's labor wars began., Traces the rise of the Molly Maguires from Ireland's devastating potato famine to the turbulent dawn of the American labor movement. With a heavy emphasis on the folk culture that underpinned the Mollies, the book documents the group's Civil War rebirth in Pennsylvania, and its lasting influence.
LC Classification Number
HV6452.P4
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