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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451893803321

Autore

Kearney Hugh F

Titolo

Ireland [[electronic resource] ] : contested ideas of nationalism and history / / Hugh F. Kearney

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : New York University Press, c2007

ISBN

0-8147-4930-5

0-8147-4860-0

1-4294-8610-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Disciplina

320.5409415

Soggetti

Nationalism - Ireland

Nationalism - Ireland - History

Electronic books.

Ireland History

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 and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface: On Being a Historian in Four Countries; Nationalism: The Case of Ireland-An Introduction; Part 1: Contested Ideas of Nationhood; 1 Contested Ideas of Nationhood, 1800-1995 (1997); 2 1875: Faith or Fatherland? The Contested Symbolism of Irish Nationalism (2000); 3 Faith and Fatherland Revisited (2000); 4 Parnell and Beyond: Nationalism in These Islands,1880-1980 (1994); 5 Language and Politics (2001); 6 Thatcher's Britain: Four Nations or One? (1991); 7 Four Nations History in Perspective (2004); 8 Civic/Ethnic Identities in a British Context (2000)

9 The Changing Face of English Nationalism (2000)10 England's Irish Enigma (1997); Part II: Contested Ideas of National History; 11 The Irish and Their History (1994); 12 Mercantilism and Ireland, 1620-40 (1958); 13 Ecclesiastical Politics and the Counter-Reformation in Ireland, 1618-48 (1960); 14 The Politics of Mercantilism, 1695-1700 (1959); 15 Fr. Mathew: Apostle of Modernization (1979); 16 The Great Famine: Legend and Reality (1957); 17 Colonizing Irish History: Canny Sets the Agenda (2002); 18 Visions and Revisions: Views of Irish History (2001); Index; About the Author



Sommario/riassunto

What is the Irish nation? Who is included in it? Are its borders delimited by religion, ethnicity, language, or civic commitment? And how should we teach its history? These and other questions are carefully considered by distinguished historian Hugh F. Kearney in Ireland: Contested Ideas of Nationalism and History . The insightful essays collected here all circle around Ireland, with the first section attending to questions of nationalism and the second addressing pivotal moments in the history and historiography of the isle. Kearney contends that Ireland represents a striking example of the p

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Record Nr.

UNINA9911026052703321

Autore

Anderson Stuart

Titolo

Pharmacopoeias, Drug Regulation, and Empires : Making Medicines Official in Britain's Imperial World, 1618-1968

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Montreal : , : McGill-Queen's University Press, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

0-2280-2159-6

0-2280-2158-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (355 pages)

Collana

Intoxicating Histories Series ; ; v.10

Disciplina

615.1/141

Soggetti

Pharmacopoeias - Great Britain - History

HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / General

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Cover -- PHARMACOPOEIAS, DRUG REGULATION, AND EMPIRES -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction: Medicines, Trade, and Pharmacopoieas -- 1 The Many Meanings of 'Pharmacopoiea' -- 2 Pharmacopoeias and Drug Regulation -- 3 Pharmacopoeias in European Colonial Empires -- 4 Pharmacopoeias for England, Scotland, and Ireland -- 5 The Emergence of Colonial Pharmacopoeias -- 6 One Empire, One Pharmacopoeia -- 7 Towards an Imperial Pharmacopoeia -- 8 From Colonial Addendum to Imperial Pharmacopoeia -- 9 A Committee of Inquiry -- 10 Decolonizing the Pharmacopoeia --



Conclusion -- Notes -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Pharmacopoeias - books describing approved standards and composition of drugs - have come in many shapes and forms throughout the history of medicine. Stuart Anderson traces the 350-year development of "official" pharmacopoeias across the British Empire, from the local to national scale, and later to a single pharmacopoeia across imperial Britain.