New Lease on Life: Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada 9780773564282

A New Lease on Life is a study of two sets of individuals - landlords and tenants - whose aspirations, opportunities, an

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New Lease on Life: Landlords, Tenants, and Immigrants in Ireland and Canada
 9780773564282

Table of contents :
Contents
Maps
Tables
Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART ONE: LANDLORDS
1 Lord Mount Cashell: An Improving and Evangelical Landlord
2 His Lordship's Adventure Abroad
3 The Famine and His Lordship's Demise
4 Major Maxwell's Irish Estates: A New Kind of Management
5 Major Maxwell's Estate on Amherst Island
PART TWO: TENANTS
6 The Ards Peninsula
7 The Emigrants and Their Settlement on Amherst Island
8 What It Meant To Be a Tenant on Amherst Island
Conclusion
Appendix: Amherst Island Immigrant Families from the Ards
Notes
A Note on Sources
Index
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D
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