Ireland and Empire
Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture
Stephen Howe
Price: £26.00 (paper)
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-924990-9
Publication date: 3 January 2002
352 pages, 232x156 mm
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| Reviews |
| - 'A more relevant or better researched book would be difficult to find' - Irish Post
- 'An academic page-turner' - Sunday Tribune, Dublin
- 'sharp and perceptive study of idelology, history, culture and the matter of Ireland.' - Independent
- 'should be read by anyone interested in understanding the ways in which historians, literary critics, political scientists, politicans and propagandists have perceived Ireland's past and present ... a stimulating discussion.' - English Historical Review
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| Description | | A growing band of historians, political commentators, and cultural critics has sought to analyse Ireland's past and present in colonial terms. For some, including Irish Republicans, it is the only proper framework for understanding Ireland. Others reject the very use of the colonial label for Ireland's history; while using the term for the present arouses outrage, especially amongst Ulster
Unionists. This book evaluates and analuses these controversies, ranging from debates over the ancient and medieval past to those in current literary and postcolonial theory. Scholarly, at times polemical, it is the most comprehensive study of these themes ever to appear, and will undoubtedly stimulate discussion for years to come. |
Readership: Students and scholars of Irish and Imperial/Colonial history; of Irish Politics;Comparative Politics;Conflict Studies; general readers interested in Irish Studies
| Contents |
1.
Introduction
2.
Contexts and Concepts
3.
The Past in the Present
4.
Irish Nationalists and the Colonial Image
5.
British Imperialists and Their Critics
6.
Chroniclers and Revisionists
7.
Colonialism, Criticism, and Cultural Theory
8.
The Irish Republic as 'Postcolonial' Polity
9.
Northern Ireland after 1968: An Anticolonial Struggle?
10.
Ulster Unionism--A Colonial Culture?
11.
Comparative Perspectives
12.
Conclusions
Notes, Bibliography, Index
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| Authors, editors,
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Stephen Howe, Tutor in Politics, Ruskin College, Oxford
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