Irish History of Civilization Volume 2 - Couverture rigide

Akenson, Don

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1862078084 ISBN 13 : 9781862078086

Editeur : Granta Books, 2006

Synopsis

'Some of these stories are accurate; all of them are true...' In his "An Irish History of Civilization", Don Akenson, the world's leading scholar of the Irish Dispora, fuses history and fiction into a remarkable narrative of the people and their influence around the globe. "An Irish History of Civilization" is about the Irish at home and abroad, the great and the small, the noble and the depraved, the saints and he sinners, adventures and idealists. As Akenson follows his chosen people on their odyssey around the globe, the lines between history and fiction become irretrievably, beguilingly lost in the mists of time. Volume Two begins with the Great Famine and goes on to show the Irish adapting, improvising and innovating in Ireland and overseas - in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Polynesia and South Africa. The book ends by demonstrating the centrality of both Catholic and Protestant Irish culture to the United States.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Don Akenson is an internationally acclaimed scholar and author who is considered the world's foremost authority on the Irish Diaspora. He has written many books, including Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds and a biography of Conor Cruse O'Brien.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Granta Books
• Date d'édition: 2006
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1862078084
• ISBN 13: 9781862078086
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 720
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible