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1 online resource (319 pages) |
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Acknowledgments; Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries; Nationalism: The Case of Ireland--An Introduction; Part 1: Contested Ideas of Nationhood; 1 Contested Ideas of Nationhood, 1800-1995 (1997); 2 1875: Faith or Fatherland? The Contested Symbolism of Irish Nationalism (2000); 3 Faith and Fatherland Revisited (2000); 4 Parnell and Beyond: Nationalism in These Islands,1880-1980 (1994); 5 Language and Politics (2001); 6 Thatcher's Britain: Four Nations or One? (1991); 7 Four Nations History in Perspective (2004); 8 Civic/Ethnic Identities in a British Context (2000) |
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9 The Changing Face of English Nationalism (2000)10 England's Irish Enigma (1997); Part II: Contested Ideas of National History; 11 The Irish and Their History (1994); 12 Mercantilism and Ireland, 1620-40 (1958); 13 Ecclesiastical Politics and the Counter-Reformation in Ireland, 1618-48 (1960); 14 The Politics of Mercantilism, 1695-1700 (1959); 15 Fr. Mathew: Apostle of Modernization (1979); 16 The Great Famine: Legend and Reality (1957); 17 Colonizing Irish History: Canny Sets the Agenda (2002); 18 Visions and Revisions: Views of Irish History (2001); Index; About the Author |
| Summary |
What 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 . The insightful essays collected here all circle around Ireland, with the first section attending to questions of nationalism and the second addressing pivotal moments in the history and historiography of the isle. Kearney contends that Ireland represents a striking example of the p |
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Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Nationalism -- Ireland -- History
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Nationalism -- Ireland
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Nationalism.
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| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85067989
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Ireland.
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| Genre/Form |
History.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780814748602 |
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0814748600 |
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