Population, providence and empire

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Population, providence and empire is written by Sarah Roddy and published by Manchester University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1847799760 (ISBN 10) and 9781847799760 (ISBN 13).

This electronic version has been made available under a Creative Commons (BY-NC-ND) open access license. Over seven million people left Ireland over the course of the nineteenth century. This book is the first to put that huge population change in its religious context, by asking how the Irish Catholic, Anglican and Presbyterian churches responded to mass emigration. Did they facilitate it, object to it, or limit it? Were the three Irish churches themelves changed by this demographic upheaval? Focusing on the effects of emigration on Ireland rather than its diaspora, and merging two of the most important phenomena in the story of modern Ireland – mass emigration and religious change – this study offers new insights into both nineteenth-century Irish history and historical migration studies in general. Its five thematic chapters lead to a conclusion that, on balance, emigration determined the churches’ fates to a far greater extent than the churches determined emigrants’ fates. An electronic edition of this book is freely available under a Creative Commons (CC BY-NC-ND) licence.