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'If the evil now growing around us be not staid': Montreal and Liverpool Confront the Irish Famine Migration as a Transnational Crisis in Urban Governance
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'If the evil now growing around us be not staid': Montreal and Liverpool Confront the Irish Famine Migration as a Transnational Crisis in Urban Governance
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During the summer of 1847, hundreds of thousands of Irish migrants fleeing famine and social upheaval in their native land made their way to the bustling North Atlantic port cities of Montreal and Liverpool. Their migration was marked by outbreaks of epidemic disease that helped fuel public doubts about the project of liberal urban governance. The imperial, colonial and municipal authorities were forced to adopt innovative practices of authority in the midst of the ensuing crisis. The author explores the similarities between the response to these events in Montreal and Liverpool as well as the way that these responses were inextricably linked to local circumstances. In doing so, the author examines the way that political practices were debated and implemented across the North Atlantic World in the middle of the nineteenth century.
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Histoire sociale/Social History
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Vol. 46
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no. 92
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349-366
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November 2013
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en
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Horner, Dan. “‘If the Evil Now Growing around Us Be Not Staid’: Montreal and Liverpool Confront the Irish Famine Migration as a Transnational Crisis in Urban Governance.” Histoire sociale/Social History Vol. 46, no. 92 (November 2013): 349–366. https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/issue/view/2307.
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