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1 online resource (841 pages)
ISBN:
9780773572836
Inhalt:
History is our true novel, says Roy Foster, Ireland's leading historian. In An Irish History of Civilization, the world's foremost scholar of the Irish diaspora, Don Akenson, fuses history and fiction into an iconoclastic narrative of a people and their influence around the globe.
Inhalt:
Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- BOOK ONE: DOWNPATRICK IS THE BUTTERFLY CAPITAL OF THE UNIVERSE -- Prelude -- The Discus Throwers 16-400 CE -- The Rope Braiders 150-400 CE -- The Book of the Conquests of Ireland 3000 BCE-493 CE -- Who Spreadest Out the Heavens 493-1493 -- New Worlds Seduce the Old 1488-1610 -- Misplaced Files 1610-1660 -- The Empire of the Obscure: The West Indies 1620-1667 -- The Mainland Colonies 1584-1690 -- The Empire of the Ambiguous: The West Indies 1668-1690 -- Glory in Some Fashion 1690-1785 -- The Devil's Sugar Plantation: The West Indies 1690-1785 -- Thirteen Is a Lucky Number 1690-1785 -- BOOK TWO: KINGS OF THE WILD FRONTIERS? -- Off Their Knees. Ireland 1785-1830 -- Cry Not for Cook's Wake 1768-1793 -- Measuring the Land of Resentment Australia 1785-1830 -- The Long White Shroud. New Zealand 1792-1830 -- Albion, Hibernia's Bent Old Darling 1715-1830 -- St Paul Comes to Polynesia 1795-1830 -- The Canadas 1770-1830 -- The American Evolution 1785-1830 -- The Edge. Ireland 1830-1845 -- Regarding the Crown Jewel. India 1785-1845 -- Not the Darkest of Continents. Africa 1805-1845 -- The End of Easy Money. The West Indies 1800-1865 -- Advance Australia Fair, or Foul 1830-45 -- Treaty Negotiations? New Zealand 1830-1845 -- Pebbles in God's Hand. Polynesia 1830-1845 -- Neighbour. England 1830-1845 -- Upper Canada. Ireland's Cold Dominion 1830-1845 -- Compression and Expansion. The United States 1830-1845 -- Index: Personal Names -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z -- Story Titles -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y.
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ISBN 9780773528901
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780773528901
Sprache:
Englisch
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