Research Catalog

Title

The Butte Irish : class and ethnicity in an American mining town, 1875-1925 / David M. Emmons.

Author

Emmons, David M.

Publication

Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1989.

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Details

Description

xiii, 443 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series

Uniform Title

Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial series

Subject

• Sozialgeschichte 1875-1925
• Irish Americans > Montana > Butte > History
• Ethnicity > Montana > Butte
• Mines and mineral resources > Montana > Butte > History
• Ethnic relations
• Ethnicity
• Irish Americans
• Mines and mineral resources
• Irish Americans > Montana
• Ethnicity > Montana
• Arbeiterklasse
• Ethnische Identität
• Iren
• Bergmann
• Butte (Mont.) > History
• Butte (Mont.) > Ethnic relations
• Montana > Butte
• United States, Montana, Silver Bow, Butte > History
• United States, Montana, Silver Bow, Butte > Minorities > History
• Butte, Mont
• Iren
• Montana

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [413]-433.

Contents

From Ireland to Butte -- Remembered pasts -- Butte, America: building an Irish community -- Church, party, and fraternity: the Irish and their associations -- Safe and steady work: the Irish and the hazards of Butte -- Irishmen and workers: the origins of a Western working-class conservatism -- Irish worker conservatism and the Buttte Miner's union, 1880-1910 -- The aristocracy besieged: the BMU, the enclave, and the new immigration, 1910-1914 -- The patriot game: Butte's Irish and the causes of Ireland -- Irishtown at war: the German alliance and worker protest, 1900-1918 -- Epilogue: the post war years.

ISBN

• 0252016033
• 9780252016035
• 0252061551
• 9780252061554

LCCN

88023231

OCLC

• ocm18290106
• 18290106
• SCSB-1726293

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library