“If the evil now growing around us be not staid”: Montreal and Liverpool Confront the Irish Famine Migration as a Transnational Crisis in Urban Governance

During the summer of 1847, hundreds of thousands of Irish migrants fleeing famine and social upheaval in their native land made their way to the bustling North Atlantic port cities of Montreal and Liverpool. Their migration was marked by outbreaks of epidemic disease that helped fuel public doubts a...

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Main Author: Horner, Dan
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Les Publications Histoire sociale - Social History Inc. 2015
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Online Access:https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40267
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spelling ftjhssh:oai:hssh.journals.yorku.ca:article/40267 2023-05-15T17:31:37+02:00 “If the evil now growing around us be not staid”: Montreal and Liverpool Confront the Irish Famine Migration as a Transnational Crisis in Urban Governance Horner, Dan 2015-06-18 application/pdf https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40267 eng eng Les Publications Histoire sociale - Social History Inc. https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40267/36452 https://hssh.journals.yorku.ca/index.php/hssh/article/view/40267 Copyright (c) 2015 Histoire sociale / Social History Histoire sociale / Social History; Vol. 46 No. 92 (2013) 1918-6576 0018-2257 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2015 ftjhssh 2022-11-27T13:44:54Z During the summer of 1847, hundreds of thousands of Irish migrants fleeing famine and social upheaval in their native land made their way to the bustling North Atlantic port cities of Montreal and Liverpool. Their migration was marked by outbreaks of epidemic disease that helped fuel public doubts about the project of liberal urban governance. The imperial, colonial and municipal authorities were forced to adopt innovative practices of authority in the midst of the ensuing crisis. This article explores the similarities between the response to these events in Montreal and Liverpool as well as the way that these responses were inextricably linked to local circumstances. In doing so, it examines the way that political practices were debated and implemented across the North Atlantic World in the middle of the nineteenth century.Durant l’été de 1847, des centaines de milliers de migrants irlandais fuyant la famine et la tourmente sociale de leur terre natale ont gagné les villes portuaires grouillantes de vie de l’Atlantique Nord qu’étaient Montréal et Liverpool. Leur migration s’est accompagnée de flambées épidémiques qui ont exacerbé le doute qu’entretenait la population quant au projet de gouvernance urbaine libérale. Les autorités impériales, coloniales et municipales furent contraintes d’adopter des pratiques novatrices d’exercice du pouvoir au plus fort de la crise qui s’ensuivit. Le présent article explore les similitudes entre les réactions que suscitèrent ces événements à Montréal et à Liverpool ainsi que les liens inextricables entre ces réactions et la conjoncture locale. Ce faisant, il examine la façon dont les pratiques politiques étaient débattues et mises en oeuvre dans le monde de l’Atlantique Nord au milieu du XIXℯ siècle. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic Histoire sociale/Social History (E-Journal)
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description During the summer of 1847, hundreds of thousands of Irish migrants fleeing famine and social upheaval in their native land made their way to the bustling North Atlantic port cities of Montreal and Liverpool. Their migration was marked by outbreaks of epidemic disease that helped fuel public doubts about the project of liberal urban governance. The imperial, colonial and municipal authorities were forced to adopt innovative practices of authority in the midst of the ensuing crisis. This article explores the similarities between the response to these events in Montreal and Liverpool as well as the way that these responses were inextricably linked to local circumstances. In doing so, it examines the way that political practices were debated and implemented across the North Atlantic World in the middle of the nineteenth century.Durant l’été de 1847, des centaines de milliers de migrants irlandais fuyant la famine et la tourmente sociale de leur terre natale ont gagné les villes portuaires grouillantes de vie de l’Atlantique Nord qu’étaient Montréal et Liverpool. Leur migration s’est accompagnée de flambées épidémiques qui ont exacerbé le doute qu’entretenait la population quant au projet de gouvernance urbaine libérale. Les autorités impériales, coloniales et municipales furent contraintes d’adopter des pratiques novatrices d’exercice du pouvoir au plus fort de la crise qui s’ensuivit. Le présent article explore les similitudes entre les réactions que suscitèrent ces événements à Montréal et à Liverpool ainsi que les liens inextricables entre ces réactions et la conjoncture locale. Ce faisant, il examine la façon dont les pratiques politiques étaient débattues et mises en oeuvre dans le monde de l’Atlantique Nord au milieu du XIXℯ siècle.
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“If the evil now growing around us be not staid”: Montreal and Liverpool Confront the Irish Famine Migration as a Transnational Crisis in Urban Governance
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