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Sam Fisher researches, teaches, and writes about colonial America, early modern Britain and Ireland, and the connections between them. His work focuses on the experiences of Irish and Scottish Gaelic and American Indigenous peoples. His recently published book, The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic 1688-1783 (Oxford University Press), offers a new explanation of the origins of the American Revolution. The project draws on Irish- and Scots-Gaelic language and Indigenous American sources to show how colonized peoples tried to reshape empires in their own image, and how their partial success convinced American colonists to leave the British empire. He is also co-editor of a recent anthology of Irish-language poetry in historical context, Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern (Wake Forest University Press). He is currently working on a project comparing the 1641 Irish Rebellion and King Philip’s War.
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Selected Publications
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The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution
Samuel K. Fisher, The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution: Diversity and Empire in the British Atlantic 1688-1783 (Oxford University Press, 2022)
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Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior
Brian Ó Conchubhair and Samuel K. Fisher, ed., Bone and Marrow/Cnámh agus Smior: An Anthology of Irish Poetry from Medieval to Modern (Wake Forest University Press, 2022)
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