Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and HistoryWhat is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History. |
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... Oxford at which I spoke. I wish also to thank my colleagues Evelyn Rawski and Irina Liveseanu, who shared the seminar on “Comparative Nationalism” at the University of Pittsburgh. Permission to reproduce copyrighted material is ...
... Oxford, was a collegiate university and in becoming an undergraduate I also had to choose a college. Quite by chance I became a member of Peterhouse, mainly because my history teacher Frank Grace had been a research student there in the ...
... Oxford where the School of Modern History was already attracting about two hundred undergraduates a year. But what was the attraction of history? Part of the answer lay in the possibilities which it opened up for success in examinations ...
... Oxford was seen as a modern equivalent of the classical Greats in the sense of providing an appropriate higher education for products of those public schools who in due course would form part of an English ruling elite.1 Those who ...
... Oxford or Cambridge. Adolphus Ward, who was familiar with modern German scholarship, had been professor there before coming to Peterhouse. In the person of Maurice Powicke Manchester had provided Oxford with its Regius Professor, and in ...