To Swear like a Sailor

To Swear like a Sailor
Author: Paul A. Gilje
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 409
Release: 2016-02-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 0521762359

This book explores American maritime world, including cursing, language, logbooks, storytelling, sailor songs, reading, and material culture.

Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905

Irish Stereotypes in Vaudeville, 1865-1905
Author: Jennifer Mooney
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2015-09-16
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1137476621

Vaudeville is often viewed as the source of some of the crude stereotypes that positioned the Irish immigrant in America as the antithesis of native-born American citizens. Using primary archival material, Mooney argues that the vaudeville stage was an important venue in which an Irish-American identity was constructed, negotiated, and refined.