Title An Irish history of civilization. Volume 1 / Don Akenson

Published Montréal : McGill-Queen's University Press, 2005

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Description 1 online resource (828 pages) Contents Contents -- Preface -- BOOK ONE: DOWNPATRICK IS THE BUTTERFLY CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE -- Prelude -- The Discus Throwers 16�400 CE -- The Rope Braiders 150�400 CE -- The Book of the Conquests of Ireland 3000 BCE�493 CE -- Who Spreadest Out the Heavens 493�1493 -- New Worlds Seduce the Old 1488�1610 -- Misplaced Files 1610�1660 -- The Empire of the Obscure: The West Indies 1620�1667 -- The Mainland Colonies 1584�1690 -- The Empire of the Ambiguous: The West Indies 1668�1690 -- Glory in Some Fashion 1690�1785 The Devil's Sugar Plantation: The West Indies 1690�1785Thirteen Is a Lucky Number 1690�1785 -- BOOK TWO: KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIERS? -- Off Their Knees. Ireland 1785�1830 -- Cry Not for Cook's Wake 1768�1793 -- Measuring the Land of Resentment Australia 1785�1830 -- The Long White Shroud. New Zealand 1792�1830 -- Albion, Hibernia's Bent Old Darling 1715�1830 -- St Paul Comes to Polynesia 1795�1830 -- The Canadas 1770�1830 -- The American Evolution 1785�1830 -- The Edge. Ireland 1830�1845 -- Regarding the Crown Jewel. India 1785�1845 Not the Darkest of Continents. Africa 1805�1845The End of Easy Money. The West Indies 1800�1865 -- Advance Australia Fair, or Foul 1830�45 -- Treaty Negotiations? New Zealand 1830�1845 -- Pebbles in God's Hand. Polynesia 1830�1845 -- Neighbour. England 1830�1845 -- Upper Canada. Ireland's Cold Dominion 1830�1845 -- Compression and Expansion. The United States 1830�1845 -- Index: Personal Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W YZ -- Story Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y Summary In a sprawling chronicle of civilization through Irish eyes, Akenson takes us from St Patrick to Woodie Guthrie, from Constantine to John F. Kennedy, from India to the Australian outback. In two volumes of masterful storytelling he creates ironic, playful, and acerbic historical miniatures - a quixotic series of reconstructions woven into a helix in which the same historical figures reappear in radically different contexts as their narratives intersect with the larger picture Notes Includes indexes Print version record Subject Civilization, Modern -- Irish influences -- Anecdotes Irish -- Foreign countries -- Anecdotes HISTORY -- Europe -- Ireland. Civilization. Civilization, Modern -- Irish influences. Emigration and immigration. Irish -- Foreign countries. SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- Anecdotes Ireland -- Civilization -- Anecdotes Ireland -- Emigration and immigration -- Anecdotes Subject Ireland. Genre/Form Anecdotes. History. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780773572836 077357283X

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