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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... Society mentioned and George Homan's Villagers of the Thirteenth Century, both of which I came to appreciate only after I had left Cambridge. Postan's approach derived from his European background, his training as an economist, and his ...
... Society. The tutorial essay gave me the opportunity to read current views on a particular topic and then to consider “revisionist” alternatives. Under Wormald's guidance I read R. H. Tawney's The Agrarian Problem of the Sixteenth ...
... Society, situated in Dublin, and its counterpart in Northern Ireland, the Ulster Society for Irish Historical Studies. These bodies were interdenominational and nonsectarian, and the Irish Historical Society in Dublin took pains to ...
... Society, was a valuable training ground, comparable to a less formal Oxford Union. The fact remains, however, that liberalism even of the palest hue was very much on the defensive in an Ireland where education was dominated by a ...
... Society in Pre-Industrial Britain – .” In this I attempted to place university curricula in a social history context, using the concept of “social function” as the basis of my argument. In the Sussex environment of the ...