Boss Cox's Cincinnati: A Study in Urbanization and Politics, 1880-1914

Crossing migrant frontiers: Comparative reflections on Irish migrants in Britain and the United States during the nineteenth century

“…American cities were ethnic maelstroms; they were not like cities anywhere else in the world. 65 What is more, Irish immigrants found support in the Democratic Party just as they were given succour by the Catholic church. The Democrats evinced a populist, patriotic, racist vision in the 1850s, which Jean Baker and David Roediger agree Crossing Migrant Frontiers 57 amounted to a reinvention of whiteness.…”