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1. Reviews of Books

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Sarah Ansari, A. R. Birley, Warren Treadgold, John B. Hattendorf, Peter Jackson, John H. Munro, H. E. J. Cowdrey, Nicholas Mayhew, Paul W. Knoll, John T. Juricek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, Daniel A. Baugh, Hugh D. Hudson, Ann Kumar, Dean R. Snow, S. D. Chapman, Jack P. Greene, Russell R. Menard, David M. Goldfrank, Caroline Finkel, Jeremy Black, Glyndwr Williams, J. Kathirithamby-Wells, Peter Spence, John Clarke, Michael Rowe, Owen Connelly, Alan Sked, Brett Fairbairn, Andre Gerolymatos, A. James Hammerton, D. Graham Burnett, Peter T. Marsh, John B. Duff, Alan O'Day, James J. Sack, C. I. Hamilton, Dane Kennedy, Carl Boyd, Geoffrey Jensen, Patrick Salmon, Yoshihisa Tak Matsusaka, John D. Fair, Norman J. W. Goda, Marcia Landy, Peter C. Kent, David Smith, Henry L. Feingold, N. David J. Barnouw, Anthony Adamthwaite, Earl F. Ziemke, David Horner, Günter Bischof, Kerrie L. MacPherson, Mark R. Peattie, Christiane Harzig, H. Bradford Westerfield, Saki Dockrill, Walter L. Hixson, Deborah Welch Larson, Sandra Whitworth, Lawrence Aronsen, Sean Greenwood, Glen St J. Barclay, Keith Hartley, Odd Arne Westad, Roy H. Ginsberg, Betty A. Dessants, Taylor B. Seybolt, Benjamin R. Barber, James L. Richardson, Timothy M. Shaw, Michael W. Doyle, Paschalis M. Kitromilides, Lucy Barber, Douglas J. Macdonald, Martin Cadwallader, William Roberts Clark, Brian C. Schmidt, and Martin Ceadel

Subjects
Cultural Studies, History, Sociology and Political Science
Published
1999
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2. Book reviews

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Oscar Handlin, Philip S. Foner, Robert Fogarty, and John B. Duff

Subjects
Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, History
Published
1976
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10. Irish-American Nationalism, 1870-1890

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Thomas N. Brown and John B. Duff

Subjects
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), common.group, common, Political science, Ethnology, Irish American, Cultural production and nationalism, Demography, Nationalism
Published
1968
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12. Ethnic Group Politics

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John B. Duff, Ellis Katz, and Harry A. Bailey

Subjects
Politics, Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Political science, Ethnic group, Gender studies, Demography
Published
1970
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13. The Irish in the United States

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William C. McCready and John B. Duff

Subjects
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous), Irish, History of the United States, Political science, language, Economic history, language.human_language, Demography
Published
1972
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14. The Irish in the United States

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Victor R. Greene and John B. Duff

Subjects
History, History and Philosophy of Science, Irish, History of the United States, Economic history, language, language.human_language
Published
1972
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15. The Versailles Treaty and the Irish-Americans

Author

John B. Duff

Subjects
History, Militant, business.industry, media_common.quotation_subject, Victory, Opposition (politics), Public opinion, language.human_language, Democracy, Politics, History and Philosophy of Science, Irish, Political science, Law, language, Treaty, business, media_common
Abstract

H ISTORICAL WRITING about American rejection of the Versailles Treaty has too often reflected the inability of historians to resist the temptation to portray the events of 1919-1920 as a classic struggle between the executive and the legislative branches, between a stubborn Democratic President and a waspish Republican Senate, or-even more narrowly-as a personal duel between Woodrow Wilson and Henry Cabot Lodge. Although such interpretations do explain a great deal, they tend to ignore the extraordinary public furor over the treaty. American politicians do not operate in a vacuum. In the United States, as in all democracies, legislators are responsive to public opinion. Traditionally, pressure groups have most effectively brought such opinion to bear on congressmen; and throughout American history, minorities have been better organized than majorities to exert this pressure.' Minority opinion has seldom been more militant or influential than it was in 1919, when a cluster of ethnic groups became embittered by the frustration of their parent nationalities at the peace conference. Among these immigrant peoples none became more cynical, more militant, or more influential politically than the Irish. Paradoxically, however, just a few months before the Senate began debate on the treaty, it looked as if the Irish would join ranks with those groups most fervently supporting the Wilsonian peace. Significant Irish-American opposition to the Versailles Treaty originated in the spring of 1919. Agitation for Ireland's freedom had been characteristic of Irish politics in America since the era of the French Revolution, and Celtic optimism and exuberance ran especially high in the weeks preceding the opening of the peace conference at Paris. Victory in the struggle for Irish independence ap

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1968
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