
Henry George, The Transatlantic Irish, and their Times
Kenneth C. Wenzer(Editor)
Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Published on 9. June 2009
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Hardback
600 pages
978-1-84855-658-4 (ISBN)
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Description
The American political economist Henry George devoted his life to the single tax. Virtually forgotten today, his best seller "Progress and Poverty" influenced numerous people in the English-speaking world. His fame and fall were due to a temporary alliance with the American Irish Catholics who were agitating for the land war in Ireland and social change in their new homeland. So significant was this tidal wave of support that it swamped the American consciousness in the late 1870s and early 1880s including prelates of the Roman Catholic Church, some of whom were conservatively inclined. George astutely navigated the waters by working with the radical editor of "The Irish World", Patrick Ford. But then George made a politically awkward friendship with Father Edward McGlynn, an ardent supporter of modernism and the single tax, who was a constant irritant to the church hierarchy and subsequently excommunicated. The issues that McGlynn raised rocked the American Catholic Church and the Vatican itself. The counter-campaign waged by the church and devout Irish Catholics blocked McGlynn and put an end to George's fleeting success.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Bingley
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Emerald Publishing Limited
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 36 mm
Weight
999 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84855-658-4 (9781848556584)
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Content
Dedication.
Preface.
Henry George, the transatlantic Irish, and their times.
Section I Getting the feet wet.
Section II Diving into the murky waters.
Section III Submerged in the sea.
Section IV Related documents of interest.
Section V Letters from the pen of Henry George and others.
Introduction.
References.
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
Henry George, the transatlantic Irish, and their times.
Copyright page.
Preface.
Henry George, the transatlantic Irish, and their times.
Section I Getting the feet wet.
Section II Diving into the murky waters.
Section III Submerged in the sea.
Section IV Related documents of interest.
Section V Letters from the pen of Henry George and others.
Introduction.
References.
Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology.
Henry George, the transatlantic Irish, and their times.
Copyright page.