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Revisionist Scholarship and Modern Irish Politics
Robert Perry
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Description for Revisionist Scholarship and Modern Irish Politics
Hardback. Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have shaped their identities according to particular interpretations of their shared history. As such. Num Pages: 192 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBAH; HBJD1; JPS. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 163 x 18. Weight in Grams: 496.
Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have shaped their identities according to particular interpretations of their shared history. As such, any re-examination and revision of Irish history has the potential to have a very real impact upon wider society. Defining revisionism in historiography as a reaction to contemporary conflict in Ireland, this book looks at how intellectuals, scholars and those who were politically involved, have reacted to a crisis of violence. It explores how they believed that revisionism in historiography was ... Read more
Almost nowhere are politics and history so intimately bound up as in Ireland. Over the course of several hundred years rival political and religious camps have shaped their identities according to particular interpretations of their shared history. As such, any re-examination and revision of Irish history has the potential to have a very real impact upon wider society. Defining revisionism in historiography as a reaction to contemporary conflict in Ireland, this book looks at how intellectuals, scholars and those who were politically involved, have reacted to a crisis of violence. It explores how they believed that revisionism in historiography was ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
180
Condition
New
Number of Pages
192
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781409451273
SKU
V9781409451273
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About Robert Perry
Dr Robert Perry specialises in the history and politics of Ireland. He received his PhD in Politics from Queen's University Belfast, and has taught at several higher education institutions in the United Kingdom, most recently at Coventry University.
Reviews for Revisionist Scholarship and Modern Irish Politics
'... a sustained and committed attempt, on the basis of wide reading, to unravel the complexities of an important intellectual and political phenomenon.' Richard English, University of St Andrews, UK ’The most comprehensive study of revisionism in Irish historical scholarship to appear since the Good Friday Agreement, this volume traces the origins of the controversy and discusses its impact ... Read more