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The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland
Eugenio Biagini
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Description for The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland
paperback. This is the first textbook on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective. Editor(s): Biagini, Eugenio F.; Daly, Mary E. Num Pages: 490 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBR; HBJD1; HBTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 247 x 174. .
Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and children, Catholics and Protestants, and in the North, South and the diaspora. An international team of leading scholars survey key changes in population, the economy, occupations, property ownership, class and migration, and also consider the interaction ... Read more
Covering three centuries of unprecedented demographic and economic changes, this textbook is an authoritative and comprehensive view of the shaping of Irish society, at home and abroad, from the famine of 1740 to the present day. The first major work on the history of modern Ireland to adopt a social history perspective, it focuses on the experiences and agency of Irish men, women and children, Catholics and Protestants, and in the North, South and the diaspora. An international team of leading scholars survey key changes in population, the economy, occupations, property ownership, class and migration, and also consider the interaction ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Condition
New
Number of Pages
648
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781107479401
SKU
V9781107479401
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Ref
99-1
About Eugenio Biagini
Eugenio F. Biagini is a Fellow of Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge and Professor of Modern and Contemporary History at the University of Cambridge. Mary E. Daly is President of the Royal Irish Academy and Professor Emerita of Modern History at University College Dublin.
Reviews for The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland
'The Cambridge Social History of Modern Ireland should be greeted with rejoicing as a landmark volume in modern Irish historiography.' Joe Lee, The Irish Times 'Advanced students will come away with pithy and well-expressed insights; and signposts, principally in 'further reading' sections appended to each chapter.' The Irish Catholic 'Editors Biagini and Daly have achieved their goal of providing a ... Read more