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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... contrast, other lectures on European history by Butterfield, Sir George Clark, the Regius Professor, and others seemed more commonplace. (It was said of Clark that he reduced the Scientific Revolution to the influence of a watchmaker in ...
... contrast, Prothero's equally nationalist emphasis upon uniqueness of English constitutional development proved to be longer lasting, at least in the Cambridge context. Needless to say, undergraduates like myself were quite unaware of ...
... contrast, the Prothero school's emphasis on the use of documents was still strongly represented in the prominent place accorded to constitutional history in Part I and the Special Subject with its two papers in Part II. The place of ...
... contrast in their personalities and their differing views on many matters, Williams, Gwynn, and Edwards had come together in a united History Department to advance the cause of what they saw as a more “critical” view of Irish history ...
... contrast had a strong tradition of English political history going back to the days of George Prothero, who had been professor in the s. The strongly unionist history professors viewed with alarm the rising tide of Scottish ...