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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... example, in the way in which Francis's little chapel, the Portiuncula, was incorporated within the vast church of St. Maria del Angeli in Assisi. The grandiose building program of Brother Elias reflected in the Upper Church of Assisi ...
... example, Edward Thompson's book The Making of the English Working Class made an extraordinary impact and it was eventually mentioned by the Arts and Humanities Citations Index ( – ) as one of the most cited of twentieth ...
... example of “modernization” in practice. I also recall him recommending a book on the Middle East, Daniel Lerner's The Passing of Traditional Society ( ), which took modernization as its theme. In this case his prognostications ...
... example of the power of nationalism. The British Empire, unlike the Hapsburg, Romanov, and Hohenzollern regimes, did not collapse after but the British government, during “the Troubles” of – was unable to control ...
... example of “civic nationalism.” The Irish Republic is entitled to, and hereby claims, the allegiance of every Irishman and Irishwoman. The republic guarantees religious and civil liberty, equal rights and opportunities to all its ...