دانلود کتاب Conscription, US Intervention and the Transformation of Ireland, 1914–1918: Divergent Destinies

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Cover\nHalftitle page\nTitle page\nCopyright page\nDedication\nContents\nIllustrations\nPreface\nAcknowledgements\nNote on Translation\nBiography of France’s Representatives to Dublin, London and Washington\nIntroduction\n Echoes of Sarajevo\n Conventional narratives\n Plea for a new historiography of the Irish Revolution\n Diplomatic sources and French narratives\n1 Political Crisis, British Intentions and Wartime Uncertainties (January 1913–March 1916)\n Home Rule and Ulster Unionism: the impossible settlement\n War breaks out: Asquith’s strategy, recruitment, and the leap into the unknown\n A distant war: propaganda and the war economy\n Laissez-faire policy and French concerns\n Conclusion\n2 Was the Rebellion a Turning Point? (April 1916–October 1916)\n Allegiance and opportunities: US neutrality and the preparation for an insurrection\n Rebellion, reactions and extrapolations?\n Aftermath and executions: the transformation of Ireland?\n Partition: ongoing deadlock and critical solutions\n Procrastination and the end of the old administrative regime\n Conclusion\n3 All Changed, Changed Quietly (October 1916–March 1917)\n October 1916 and the threat of conscription\n Opposing conscription, supporting Redmond\n The decline in recruitment\n The North-Roscommon by-election: the twilight of Sinn Féin\n Conclusion\n4 Resisting Conscription, Redefining Ireland (March 1917–October 1917)\n March 1917: the Home Rule controversy\n Re-organizing Sinn Féin: towards Árd Fheis\n The South Longford by-election: the men of Easter Week saved your sons from conscription\n Tightening the grip: the East-Clare election\n The Kilkenny by-election\n Árd Fheis: the Sinn Féin Convention in October 1917\n The shifting position of the Roman Catholic clergy\n The growing number of Sinn Féin sympathizers\n Conclusion\n5 The Wartime Internationalization of the Irish Question (April 1917–March 1918)\n US intervention: a blow to the separatist movement?\n Colonel House and Ireland\n The April 1917 Irish Convention: a ‘flat failure’39 or a ‘political camouflage’40?\n British procrastination\n From fear of another black ’47 to fear of conscription (January–March 1918)\n Unholy alliances, survival and despair\n The goal of the Peace Conference takes hold\n Conclusion\n6 Conscription, Betrayal and the Agony of the Irish Parliamentary Party (April 1918)\n From the Ulster ‘conscription cry’ to the German offensive\n Heated debates and some revelations\n A stab in the back of the dead man: a second execution of dead heroes\n ‘The miracle has been performed’87\n Preparing the fight here and abroad\n An unpopular move among the British authorities in Ireland\n Conscription: a counter-Wilsonian move?\n Conclusion\n7 Endgame (May 1918–December 1918)\n The German plot\n On the road to victory: summer 1918\n December 1918: the triumph of the Internationalists\n Conclusion\nEpilogue\n How the Great War transformed Ireland\n Diverging destinies\n National minorities, post-war order and disillusions\nBibliography\nIndex