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Zusatztext The OUP Handbook of Modern Irish History, ranging over the last five centuries, imaginatively and expertly edited by Alvin Jackson, offers a rich cornucopia of perspectives from the 36 contributors, skilfully blending the chronological with the thematic in summarising the most recent understanding of topics and periods, while frequently and fruitfully meditating on possible future directions of enquiry. It is essential reading for understanding both how Ireland has got here, and for pondering possible further approaches to the historiography of the past five centuries Informationen zum Autor Alvin Jackson was educated at Corpus Christi College and Nuffield College, Oxford, and has been Lecturer in Modern Irish History at University College Dublin and Professor of Modern Irish History at Queen's University Belfast. Among his books are Ireland 1798-1998: War, Peace and Beyond (2010) and The Two Unions: Ireland, Scotland and the Survival of the United Kingdom, 1707-2007 (2012). Klappentext Draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history. Zusammenfassung Draws from a wide range of disciplines to bring together 36 leading scholars writing about 400 years of modern Irish history. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Contributors PART I: INTRODUCTION 1: Alvin Jackson: Irish History in the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries PART II: THEMATIC STUDIES Nation, Empire, and Landscape 2: Sean Connolly: Patriotism and Nationalism 3: Alvin Jackson: Loyalists and Unionists 4: Stephen Howe: Colonized and Colonizers: Ireland in the British Empire 5: Yvonne Whelan: Landscape and Politics People, Culture, and the Economy 6: Terence Dooley: Land and the People 7: Enda Delaney: Migration and Diaspora 8: Philip Ollerenshaw: Business and Industry 9: Marianne Elliott: Faith in Ireland, 1600-2000 10: Maria Luddy: Gender and Irish History 11: Margaret Kelleher: Irish Literary Culture in English 12: Fintan Cullen: Visual Arts 13: Toby Barnard: Material Cultures 14: Robert J. Savage: Film and Broadcast Media PART III: PERIOD STUDIES The Third Kingdom: Ireland, c.1580-1690 15: Tadhg Ó hAnnracháin: Plantation, 1580-1641 16: Jane Ohlmeyer: Confederation and Union, 1641-1660 17: Nicholas Canny: Ireland and Continental Europe, c.1600-c.1750 18: Ted McCormick: Restoration Ireland, 1660-1688 19: Robert Armstrong: The War of the Three Kings, 1689-1691 Ascendancy Ireland (1691-1801) 20: D. W. Hayton: Early Hanoverian Ireland, 1690-1750 21: David Dickson: Famine and Economic Change in Eighteenth Century Ireland 22: Éamonn Ó Ciardha: Irish-Language Sources for the History of Early Modern Ireland 23: Maurice J. Bric: Ireland and the Atlantic World, 1690-1840 24: James Kelly: Patriot Politics, 1750-1791 25: Patrick Geoghegan: Rising and Union, 1791-1801 British State and Catholic Nation (1800-1920) 26: Thomas Bartlett: The Emergence of the Irish Catholic Nation, 1750-1850 27: Peter Gray: Famine and Land, 1845-1880 28: Donald M. MacRaild: Emigration, 1800-1920 29: Matthew Kelly: Home Rule and its Enemies 30: Timothy Bowman: Ireland and the First World War 31: Niall Whelehan: The Irish Revolution, 1912-1923 Dominion, Republic, and Home Rule: The Two Irelands, 1920-2008 32: Fearghal McGarry: Southern Ireland, 1922-1932: A Free State? 33: Diarmaid Ferriter: De Valera's Ireland, 1932-1958 34: Henry Patterson: Unionism, 1921-1972 35: Eunan O'Halpin: The Second World War and Ireland 36: Brian Girvin: The Lemass Legacy and the Making of Contemporary Ireland, 1958-2011 37: Paul Arthur: The Long War and its Aftermath, 1969-2007 ...
