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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... on the French wars of religion, the Counterreformation, and the controversies between the Jesuits and the Jansenists. I also recall reading Paul Hazard's study of the early enlightenment, Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries 3.
... religious figures in that the historian faced the challenge of recovering the original vision of Francis from material written at a later period. The history of the Franciscan Order also showed how the founder's idealism gave way to ...
... religion (or so he thought). It was not surprising that Seeley should have opposed Irish Home Rule. In due course he became a ... religious life of the English people.” He included women's 6 Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries.
Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History Hugh F Kearney. and religious life of the English people.” He included women's history within the scope of history. He was also well aware of the need to compare English developments with those ...
... Religion and the Rise of Capitalism as a convenient text, available in paperback. I was not invited again. I also recall ordering Henry James's novel Portrait of a Lady from an Oxford bookshop. When it arrived, I was summoned to the ...