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The Personality of Ireland: Habitat, Heritage and History: The Wiles Lectures

Autor E. Estyn Evans
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 28 sep 2005
The history of Ireland has been conceived in two ways: as the history of the English in Ireland or as the history of Gaelic Ireland, but both kinds have been concerned with personalities and institutions rather than with society as a whole. None of the many histories of Ireland tells us much about the land whose story they purport to record. In this book, Professor Estyn Evans takes a new look at Ireland. For the human geographer, if environment without man is an abstraction, so is society without environment, and history operates and takes its visual form in particular cultural environments. He contends that studies of heritage can assist the documentary historian in reaching a fuller understanding of the distinctive and continuing character of Irish history. Drawing on the findings of geography, he finds evidence for remarkable cultural continuities in this pastoral insular end of the Old World. His illustrations are taken from various historical and archaeological horizons, in particular the megalithic, the early Celtic and early Christian, and from agrarian history, folkways and field observations.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780521020145
ISBN-10: 052102014X
Pagini: 136
Dimensiuni: 138 x 215 x 9 mm
Greutate: 0.18 kg
Ediția:Revised
Editura: Cambridge University Press
Colecția Cambridge University Press
Seria The Wiles Lectures

Locul publicării:Cambridge, United Kingdom

Cuprins

List of illustrations; Preface; 1. Habitat, heritage and history: an anthropogeographic view; 2. The Irish habitat; 3. The Irish heritage; 4. The personality of Ireland; Appendix; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Descriere

Written from a geographical perspective, this book provides a new look at Ireland.