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Seated By The Sea: The Maritime History Of Portland, Maine, And Its Irish Longshoremen (Working In The Americas),Used
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Traces the rise of the IrishAmerican immigrant community in Portland, Maine, through its control of waterfront labor over eight decades before the ports twentieth century decline. The book is a valuable contribution to local labor history that situates its subject within the broader picture of U.S. history during a crucial period in the formation of the nation's economic and social identity.'Lincoln P. Paine, author of Down East'Vividly reveals how America's maritime culture has declined over a very short period of time.'Gene Allen Smith, coeditor, New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archaeology series'Provides crucial insight into the ethnic dimension of New England's longshoremen.'Josh Smith, U.S. Merchant Marine Academy'Michael Connolly has down a masterful piece of research and writing that fills in so much that is left out of the history books. Seated by the Sea documents the rise and fall of Portland, Maine's maritime fortunes, the immigrant Irish who dominated its dockside work, and the independent longshore union that the workers formed to help claim their place in Amerca. This wellwritten history overcomes the lack of good scholarship on Atlantic Ocean longshore unionism prior to the twentieth century and truly puts the importance of Portland's maritime heritage on the map.'John Beck, Michigan State UniversityFor decades, Portland, Maine, was the closest icefree port to Europe. As such, it was key to the transport of Canadian wheat across the Atlantic, losing its prominence only after WWII, as containerization came to dominate all shipping and Portland shifted its focus to tourism.Michael Connolly offers an indepth study of the onshore labor force that made the port function from the midnineteenth through the midtwentieth centuries. He shows how Irish immigrants replaced and supplanted the existing West Indian workers and established benevolent societies and unions that were closed to blacks. Using this fascinating city and these hardworking longshoremen as a case study, he sheds light on a larger tale of ethnicity, class, regionalism, and globalization.Michael C. Connolly, a native of Portland, is professor of history at Saint Joseph's College of Maine. He is the editor of They Change Their Sky: The Irish in Maine.
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