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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... professor at Harvard as part of a course on the Expansion of Europe. Parry was fascinated by such details as the “lateen” rig used by Muslim traders in the Indian Empire and the “fore and aft” rig of European vessels. He was also, more ...
... professor of ecclesiastical history, and an eighteenth-century topic offered by Jack Plumb. My own choice was “St. Francis and the Franciscan Order,” which was given by David Knowles. This proved to be a most rewarding experience. The ...
... Professor when the Tripos was set up, looked upon history as a “school of statesmanship,” which should be linked with such disciplines as political philosophy, jurisprudence, and political economy. For him, as for Freeman, his Oxford ...
... Professor, described in as “a very unfortunate boom” in English history, giving “a certain note of insularity to the Tripos which was much to be deplored.” For their part the constitutionalists argued that “the subject was ...
... professor there before coming to Peterhouse. In the person of Maurice Powicke Manchester had provided Oxford with its Regius Professor, and in L. B. Namier it boasted 8 Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries.