1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910666731703321

Autore

Foster R. F (Robert Fitzroy), <1949->

Titolo

Luck and the Irish [[electronic resource] ] : a brief history of change from 1970 / / R.F. Foster

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2008

ISBN

1-281-34192-4

9786611341923

0-19-803987-5

1-4356-4254-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (241 p.)

Disciplina

941.7082

Soggetti

Electronic books.

Ireland History 20th century

Ireland Economic conditions 20th century

Ireland Politics and government 1949-

Ireland Civilization 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-214) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: Culture and anarchy in Ireland c. 1970-2000 -- The miracle of loaves and fishes -- How the Catholics became Protestants -- 'The party fight and funeral' : Fianna Fáil and Irish  politics in the late twentieth century -- 'Big, mad children' : The south and the north -- How the short stories became novels -- Conclusion: The strange death of romantic Ireland.

Sommario/riassunto

Roy Foster is one of Ireland's leading historians, the author of the much acclaimed two-volume biography of Yeats as well as the definitive history Modern Ireland, which has been hailed as ""dazzling"" (New York Times Book Review) and ""elegant, erudite, wise, witty"" (Irish Times). Now, this brilliant writer offers a ""short and combative"" account of Ireland's astonishing transformation over the last three decades. Has there really been an ""economic miracle""? Where does the explosion of cultural energy in music, literature, and theater come from? Has the power of the Catholic Church really



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783313703321

Autore

Cooper Frederick <1947->

Titolo

Colonialism in question [[electronic resource] ] : theory, knowledge, history / / Frederick Cooper

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2005

ISBN

1-282-44575-8

9786612445750

0-520-93861-5

1-59875-524-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (340 p.)

Disciplina

325.6

Soggetti

Decolonization - Africa - Historiography

Imperialism - Historiography

Decolonization - Historiography

Africa Colonization Historiography

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 243-311) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : colonial questions, historical trajectories -- The rise, fall, and rise of colonial studies, 1951/2001 -- Identity / with Rogers Brubaker -- Globalization -- Modernity -- States, empires, and political imagination -- Labor, politics, and the end of empire in French Africa -- Colonialism, history, politics.

Sommario/riassunto

In this closely integrated collection of essays on colonialism in world history, Frederick Cooper raises crucial questions about concepts relevant to a wide range of issues in the social sciences and humanities, including identity, globalization, and modernity. Rather than portray the past two centuries as the inevitable movement from empire to nation-state, Cooper places nationalism within a much wider range of imperial and diasporic imaginations, of rulers and ruled alike, well into the twentieth century. He addresses both the insights and the blind spots of colonial studies in an effort to get beyond the tendency in the field to focus on a generic colonialism located sometime between 1492 and the 1960's and somewhere in the "West." Broad-ranging, cogently argued, and with a historical focus that moves from Africa to South Asia



to Europe, these essays, most published here for the first time, propose a fuller engagement in the give-and-take of history, not least in the ways in which concepts usually attributed to Western universalism-including citizenship and equality-were defined and reconfigured by political mobilizations in colonial contexts.