SINOPSIS DEL LIBRO

<p>'Receding imperialism usually leaves behind those who have for generations staunchly upheld its authority and flourished under its aegis ? Germans in Bohemia, Swedes in Finland, loyalists or tories in the American colonies, Greeks in Asia Minor, Muslims in the Balkans. Among those abandoned adherents of a lost cause were the unionists in the south and the west of Ireland.' So begins R.B. McDowell's preface to this lively, meticulously research...Seguir leyendo