| Description |
1 online resource (620 pages) |
| Series |
Studies In Modern History |
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Studies In Modern History
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| Contents |
Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Dedication; Table of Contents; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Map; Introduction; Part One: Under Strain: From Union to Famine; 1. Politics: O'Connell: Innovation and Ambiguity; I. The Union and its context; II. Emancipation overtures; III. Emancipation gained; IV. The phenomenon of O'Connell; V. Repeal and reform; VI. Repeal and failure; 2. Society: Agrarian Crisis and Population Collapse; I. Demographic networks; II. The contours of rural society; III. Poverty and its extent; IV. Violence and rural unrest; V. Urban experiences |
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VI. Famine3. Religion: The Birthpangs of Modernity; I. Reform and revival; II. Clergy, people, and popular beliefs; III. Protestant minorities; IV. Ambiguities; Part Two: Winners and Losers: From Famine to Partition; 4. Society: Agricola Victor; I. The post-Famine countryside; II. Landlords and tenants; III. Land agitation and farmers' triumph; IV. Rural values and relationships; V. Towns and industries; VI. Plus ça change ... ; 5. Politics: Nationalism and Localism; I. The Famine's political aftermath; II. Revolutionaries and the birth of Home Rule; III. Parnellite politics |
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IV. Conservatism and UnionismV. Anglo-Saxon attitudes; VI. Parnell's disputed legacy; VII. Cultural nationalism; VIII. Violence and separation; 6. Religion: Triumphs and Stockades; I. Post-Famine Catholicism and Irish society; II. Sectarian fundamentals; III. Educadonal preoccupations; IV. Priests and politics -- old style; V. Priests and politics -- new style; VI. The church and the revolutionaries; Part Three: Promised Lands: Ireland since 1921; 7. Politics: An Island Now Formally Divided; I. Free states; II. De Valera's apotheosis; III. The North; IV. Politics in an unequivocal republic |
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V. Localism and party affairsVI. Northern troubles: Britain, Ulster, and the Republic; 8. Society: Stagnation, Boom, Slump, Boom; I. Classical economics all round; II. Free trade, protection, and caution; III. New beginnings; IV. False prosperities; V. Out of the depths; 9. Religion: Piety and Its Spoils; I.A quasi-clericalist state?; II. Education again; III. Protestant perceptions; IV. 'Mother and child'; V. Catholicism and choppy seas; VI. Northern pieties; Bibliography; A; B; Index |
| Summary |
The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Ireland -- History -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068017
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Ireland -- History -- 20th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85068021
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| Subject |
Ireland
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317881933 |
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1317881931 |
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