| Book Reviews | The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, 130.2

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Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675–1815. Written and edited by Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David Doyle. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. xxvii, 788p. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendix, sources, index. Cloth, $99; paper, $49.95.)

At first glance, Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan appears to be a rather standard, albeit lengthy, primary-source collection of mostly personal letters, along with journal excerpts and a handful of public documents, that have been gathered together to reveal the tremendous variation in the life experiences of sixty-eight Irish immigrants to early America. Indeed, as the authors' choice of subjects reveals, early Irish immigrants were a diverse lot, consisting of Presbyterians, Anglicans, Quakers, as well as a substantial minority of Catholics. These immigrants came from a variety of social classes (from the wealthy to the humble), occupations (they included merchants, clergymen, craftsmen, and laborers), and regions in Ireland (many were urban dwellers from Ulster, or Dublin, but many others were rural dwellers from the north and south). In short, unlike later waves of mostly poor, uneducated, and rural dwelling Irish Catholic immigrants, there was no one "type" of early Irish immigrant.

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