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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... constitutional history was also an impressive performance. She was a great admirer of Stubbs but she also introduced us to the works of Maitland and we were made very much aware that there was a good deal of debate about such issues as ...
... constitutional history rested upon an evolutionary model which played down the role of conflict in history. It was also very much concerned with administrative institutions such as “the medieval sheriff.” From this approach specific ...
... constitutional history in the Tripos. It was this group which first modified and then undermined the Seeley approach. Seeley himself thought that “history has to do with the State” and he criticized those his- torians who made “too much ...
... constitutional development proved to be longer lasting, at least in the Cambridge context. Needless to say, undergraduates like myself were quite unaware of the prehistory of the History Tripos. Our historical awareness might have been ...
... constitutional history in Part I and the Special Subject with its two papers in Part II. The place of constitutional history was to be reinforced when Geoffrey Elton arrived in Cambridge in the s. During my last year at ...