Debunks the pervasive and self-congratulatory myth that our country is proudly founded by and for immigrants, and urges readers to embrace a more complex and ho

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"The acknowledged work of scholarship on the migration in the eighteenth century of a quarter of a million people from Ulster to the New World. It combines deta

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