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The 'natural leaders' and their world : politics, culture and society in Belfast, c. 1801-1832
This is an exploration of the complex and cosmopolitan urban culture inhabited by the Presbyterian elite of late-Georgian Belfast.
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Studies in Settler Colonialism
A widespread and still contemporary political phenomenon that exercises a profound effect on societies, settler colonialism structures relationships both historically and culturally diverse. This book assesses the distinctive feature of settler colonialism, and discusses its political, sociological, economic and cultural consequences.
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Constructing Irish national identity : discourse and ritual during the land war, 1879-1882
\"Author Anne Kane analyzes the intertwined cultural, political, and social transformations that occur during historical events by focusing specifically on the case of the Irish land war, a pivotal event in the formation of the modern Irish nation\"--Provided by publisher.
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Ireland and India
Through a consideration of historical memory, commemoration and the 'imagined communities' of nationalism, Ireland and India examines three aspects of Ireland's imperial history: relationships between Irish and Indian nationalists, the construction of Irishmen as imperial heroes, and the commemoration of an Irish regiment's mutiny in India.
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Proslavery Britain
This book tells the untold story of the fight to defend slavery in the British Empire. Drawing on a wide range of sources, from art, poetry, and literature, to propaganda, scientific studies, and parliamentary papers, Proslavery Britain explores the many ways in which slavery's defenders helped shape the processes of abolition and emancipation. It finds that proslavery arguments and rhetoric were carefully crafted to justify slavery, defend the colonies, and attack the abolition movement at the height of the slavery debates.
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\Martial Law Travels\: Gothic Internationalism and Irish Nationalist Newspapers
In the nineteenth century, Irish newspaper culture became more experimental in nature. The form of Irish nationalist newspapers as an assemblage of various registers and genres embodied the politics of Irish nationalism and anti- colonialism in the period. These media innovations, as well as the forms of writing disseminated, transformed again during the Great Famine in Ireland (1846-51). During and after the Famine, the gothic was mobilized in newspaper columns, often in service of producing critiques of empire. Examining Irish newspaper writing on famine in India and on the Morant Bay Rebellion, this essay argues that engagement with the gothic in the anti-colonialist press in Victorian Ireland allowed for the emergence of powerful and distinctly internationalist critiques of colonial capitalism and its violent apparatuses. .Amy E. Martin (amartin@mtholyoke.edu) is Professor of English on the Emma B. Kennedy Foundation at Mount Holyoke College. She is the author of Alter- Nations: Nationalisms, Terror, and the State in Nineteenth Century Britain and Ireland (Ohio State UP, 2012) and has published widely on Victorian Ireland, including in The Field Day Review, Victorian Literature and Culture, and Victorian Review.
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The Other Special Relationship
The diplomatic \"special relationship\" between the US and UK has received much attention from historians, while their shared history of racial inequality and civil rights struggles have been relatively understudied. This collection explores this other \"special relationship,\" expanding our historical understanding of the global civil rights movement.
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The Making of Modern Afghanistan
This book examines the evolution of the modern Afghan state in the shadow of Britain's imperial presence in South Asia during the first half of the nineteenth century. It challenges the staid assumptions that the Afghans were little more than pawns in a larger Anglo-Russian imperial rivalry known as the 'Great Game'. Instead, it argues the way the East India Company related to the Afghan kingdom was definitional of both, and explains many of the unresolved issues central to the region today. The book considers the underlying causes of the failure of British policies and imagination with regards to Afghanistan and its consequences for the region and its inhabitants. In particular, it looks at the pressures shaping British strategic policies and vision beyond its north west frontier. Rather than being fearful of the far-removed forces of the Tsar, they were more concerned with indigenous competitors for power on the sub-continent.
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Ireland’s Long Nineteenth Century of Union
With the rise of Scottish nationalism and the consolidation of the Good Friday and St Andrews Agreements in Northern Ireland, the unions of the UK now look rather different than they did in the recent past. Similarly, the range of scholarship under review here cumulatively delivers a portrayal of the UK in the nineteenth century, and of the British-Irish union, that is strikingly different from that prevailing hitherto. Here, Jackson talks about the work of Padhraig Higgins, Douglas Kanter, and Allan Blackstock who implicitly invite readers to see the beginnings of nineteenth-century Irish politics not (as is commonly argued) in the 1790s, with the birth of Irish republicanism and of Orangeism--but rather further back in the eighteenth century.
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Social change and everyday life in Ireland, 1850-1922
Men and women who were born, grew up and died in Ireland between 1850 and 1922 made decisions - to train, to emigrate, to stay at home, to marry, to stay single, to stay at school - based on the knowledge and resources they had at the time. This, the first comprehensive social history of Ireland for the period 1850-1922 to appear since 1981, tries to understand that knowledge and to discuss those resources on the island, for men and women at all social levels, as a whole. Using original research, particularly on extreme poverty and public health, and neglected published sources - local history journals, popular autobiography, newspapers - as well as folklore and Irish language sources, this is a remarkable study on a crucial period in Irish history. However, it is also a lively read, reproducing the voices of the people and the stories of individuals whenever it can, questioning much of the accepted wisdom of Irish historiography over the past five decades. A fascinating book on Irish social history that will be enjoyed by both the student and general reader, written in a non-clichéd, jargon-free style.
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