Captain Rock: The Irish Agrarian Rebellion of 1821a 1824

In this lyrical memoir of her Lebanese-American family, Elmaz Abinader offers a vivid account of uprooted and resettled lives. Spanning four generations and two continents, Children of the Roojme is the story of a family from the mountains of Lebanon and their emigration to western Pennsylvania. More than that, it bears intimate witness to the hardships of World War I, the disintegrating Ottoman empire, abandonment of centuries-old villages, and the New World conflict between cultural tradition and assimilation.

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Author: James S. Jr. Donnelly
Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Published: 12/15/1997
Pages: 512
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.50lbs
Size: 8.70h x 6.00w x 1.40d
ISBN: 9780299233143

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 10/09/2009 pg. 15
Choice 09/01/2010

About the Author
James S. Donnelly, Jr., is professor of history at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Coeditor of the journal ?ire-Ireland, he is author of The Great Irish Potato Famine, The Land and the People of Nineteenth-Century Cork (awarded the Herbert Baxter Adams Prize of the American Historical Association), and Landlord and Tenant in Nineteenth-Century Ireland.