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Ireland: A History

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Description for Ireland: A History Paperback. Acclaimed political, social, cultural and economic history of Ireland from prehistory to the present by one of Ireland's leading historians. Num Pages: 641 pages, 95 b/w illus. 11 maps. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 245 x 175 x 31. Weight in Grams: 1254.
Ireland has rarely been out of the news during the past thirty years. Whether as a war-zone in which Catholic nationalists and Protestant Unionists struggled for supremacy, a case study in conflict resolution or an economy that for a time promised to make the Irish among the wealthiest people on the planet, the two Irelands have truly captured the world's imagination. Yet single-volume histories of Ireland are rare. Here, Thomas Bartlett, one of the country's leading historians, sets out a fascinating new history that ranges from prehistory to the present. Integrating politics, society and culture, he offers an authoritative historical ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Cambridge University Press Cambridge
Number of pages
642
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Condition
New
Weight
1253g
Number of Pages
641
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107422346
SKU
9781107422346
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About Thomas Bartlett
Thomas Bartlett is Professor of Irish History at the School of Divinity, History and Philosophy, University of Aberdeen. His previous publications include The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation: The Catholic Question, 1690–1830 (1992), A Military History of Ireland (1996, with Keith Jeffery) and Revolutionary Dublin: The Letters of Francis Higgins to Dublin Castle, 1795–1801 (2004).

Reviews for Ireland: A History
'Based on wide reading, clearly structured, elegantly expressed, spiced with a sardonic wit, steering a skilful course through the treacherous ideological rapids of Irish historiography, Bartlett's Ireland deserves to become a classic.' J. Joseph Lee, New York University and author of Ireland 1912–1985 'Vivid and nuanced, personal and scholarly, this audacious survey of the Irish past and present is magisterial ... Read more

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