Ronald A. Wells Livres

Exploring the significance of California as both a physical location and a conceptual ideal, this book delves into its role in shaping American identity. It examines the notion of "the California Dream" as a reflection of the broader American aspiration for renewal and redemption. By analyzing California's unique cultural and historical context, the work invites scholars to engage with the deeper meanings behind the promise of American life, highlighting the state's influence on national self-understanding.

This book addresses a neglected area of Irish emigration to America, that from Ulster in the nineteenth century. Studies of nineteenth and twentieth century Irish emigration have centered on the south and the west of Ireland. Or, when emigration from the north of Ireland has been studied, it has typically been concerned with the eighteenth century. This is a study of America Letters, the letters sent home to the north of Ireland from Ulster emigrants in America. Insofar as it is possible to illumine the mind of emigration, the letters of ordinary people help us to do so. The letters in this book are from three families - two Protestant, one Catholic - and they range in time-span between 1843 and 1932.