Governing Hibernia: British Politicians and Ireland 1800-1921
Autor K. Theodore Hoppenen Limba Engleză Hardback – 18 aug 2016
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780198207436
ISBN-10: 0198207433
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 166 x 239 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0198207433
Pagini: 352
Dimensiuni: 166 x 239 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.68 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Recenzii
given our tendency to view the period as a struggle for independence, this fascinating book on the failure of the Union offers a useful change of perspective.
This is a scintillating work of interpretation based on a lifetime of deep study of British and Irish politics and is likely to provoke lively and prolonged historical debate among historians of Britain and Ireland alike.
The research that backs this serpentine narrative is deeply impressive: more than one hundred archives and sets of papers were consulted, while the range of secondary sources is exemplary and reassuring. Learning is carried lightly and displayed always for the benefit of the reader. Complicated tales are told and made easy to follow, and a huge cast of characters is allowed to strut and stumble ... this is first-class scholarship, expertly communicated and full of interest.
Governing Hibernia offers a compelling framework for understanding the Anglo-Irish relationship during the Union from the perspective of the British ruling class. Hoppen's mastery of the sources testifies to a professional life devoted to scrupulous archival research, and his command of the material is evident in his sparkling, often irreverent prose, which makes this study that rara avis, a work of serious scholarship that is also a pleasure to read ... Grandly conceived, closely argued, and carefully executed, this book will oblige Irish historians to engage with it for decades to come.
[The book] offers a magisterial survey of the attitudes and intentions that formed the ways in which successive British governments attempted to govern Ireland between the 1801 Act of Union and that Act's 'effective demise' in 1921. [It] is a tour de force of historical reconstruction over a century and more of Anglo- Irish relations.
This is a scintillating work of interpretation based on a lifetime of deep study of British and Irish politics and is likely to provoke lively and prolonged historical debate among historians of Britain and Ireland alike.
The research that backs this serpentine narrative is deeply impressive: more than one hundred archives and sets of papers were consulted, while the range of secondary sources is exemplary and reassuring. Learning is carried lightly and displayed always for the benefit of the reader. Complicated tales are told and made easy to follow, and a huge cast of characters is allowed to strut and stumble ... this is first-class scholarship, expertly communicated and full of interest.
Governing Hibernia offers a compelling framework for understanding the Anglo-Irish relationship during the Union from the perspective of the British ruling class. Hoppen's mastery of the sources testifies to a professional life devoted to scrupulous archival research, and his command of the material is evident in his sparkling, often irreverent prose, which makes this study that rara avis, a work of serious scholarship that is also a pleasure to read ... Grandly conceived, closely argued, and carefully executed, this book will oblige Irish historians to engage with it for decades to come.
[The book] offers a magisterial survey of the attitudes and intentions that formed the ways in which successive British governments attempted to govern Ireland between the 1801 Act of Union and that Act's 'effective demise' in 1921. [It] is a tour de force of historical reconstruction over a century and more of Anglo- Irish relations.
Notă biografică
K. Theodore Hoppen was born in Germany and moved to Ireland in 1947. He was educated at Glenstal Abbey School, University College Dublin, and Trinity College Cambridge. He worked in the History Department at the University of Hull from 1966 to 2003, and was made a Fellow of the British Academy in 2001 and an Honorary Member of the Royal Irish Academy in 2010.