Under the Starry Flag

How a Band of Irish Americans Joined the Fenian Revolt and Sparked a Crisis over Citizenship

Under the Starry Flag
Lucy E Salyer
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26 Mar 2021 US
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9780674251441
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Winner of the Myrna F. Bernath Book Award? A stunning accomplishment? As the Trump administration works to expatriate naturalized U. S. citizens, understanding the history of individual rights and state power at the heart of Under the Starry Flag could not be more important. ? ? Passport? A brilliant piece of historical writing as well as a real page-turner. Salyer seamlessly integrates analysis of big, complicated historical questions? allegiance, naturalization, citizenship, politics, diplomacy, race, and gender? into a gripping narrative. ? ? Kevin Kenny, author of The American Irish: A HistoryIn 1867 forty Irish American freedom fighters, outfitted with guns and ammunition, sailed to Ireland to join the effort to end British rule. They were arrested for treason as soon as they landed. The Fenians, as the freedom fighters were called, claimed American citizenship. British authorities disagreed, insisting that naturalized Irish Americans remained British subjects. Following in the wake of the Civil War, the Fenian crisis dramatized anew the question of whether citizenship should be considered an inalienable right. Under the Starry Flag recounts the captivating trial of these men, which convinced some Americans of the high cost of extending the rights of citizens to recent arrivals from far-flung lands. This gripping legal saga, a prelude to today' s immigration battles, raises important questions about citizenship and immigration.
A stunning accomplishment. . . As the Trump administration works to expatriate naturalized U. S. citizens, understanding the history of individual rights and state power at the heart of Under the Starry Flag could not be more important. . . Salyer' s work on expatriation recalls a different time, when the U. S. government worked hard to protect and reinforce the rights of immigrants in the United States and those that became U. S. citizens. -- Torrie Hester * Passport * Under the Starry Flag is a brilliant piece of historical writing as well as a real page-turner. Salyer seamlessly integrates analysis of big, complicated historical questions-allegiance, naturalization, citizenship, politics, diplomacy, race, and gender-into a gripping narrative. -- Kevin Kenny, author of The American Irish: A History Salyer offers a compelling account of how the right of expatriation won recognition during the second half of the nineteenth century through the efforts of immigrants themselves, and then gestures at the darker story of how the U. S. government wielded expatriation against both native-born and naturalized citizens in the twentieth century, often to devastating effect. -- Kunal Parker, author of Making Foreigners: Immigration and Citizenship Law in America, 1600-2000 Under the Starry Flag is a beautifully written account of the Irish Americans who fought for Ireland' s freedom in the 1860s and for their protection, as naturalized U. S. citizens, from British prosecution. Irish freedom fighters, the Civil War and slave emancipation, the color line in American law, and international relations-all told by Lucy Salyer with elegance, drama, and erudition. -- Mae Ngai, author of Impossible Subjects: Illegal Aliens and the Making of Modern America Beautifully crafted and compelling, Lucy Salyer' s illuminating narrative of Irish American freedom fighters is a reminder of the pathos and passion in the history of citizenship. Highly recommended. -- Mary Dudziak, author of War Time: An Idea, Its History, Its Consequences Do individuals have an inherent right to change their national allegiance? Are naturalized citizens the equal of birthright citizens? What power do sovereign states wield in a world of nation-states? Salyer gives us a history of expatriation in the era of Reconstruction that is both a riveting story and a brilliant contribution to our understanding of citizenship. -- Barbara Young Welke, author of Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States
Lucy E. Salyer is Professor of History at the University of New Hampshire and author of Laws Harsh as Tigers: Chinese Immigrants and the Shaping of Modern Immigration Law, which won the Theodore Saloutos Book Award for the best book on immigration history. A former Constance E. Smith Fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, Salyer has received the Arthur K. Whitcomb Professorship for teaching excellence, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities, the National Science Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies.
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ISBN-13: 9780674251441
Published: 26 Mar 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: The Belknap Press
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Format: Paperback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Pages: 328

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