Distilling a lifetime's scholarship, this meditation on the nature of history challenges hitherto sacrosanct assumptions about Ireland's past. The author explores the essential structure of what is called "Irish history" and asks provocative questions about popular misconceptions. Even where such misconceptions have been refuted by academic research, the author points out, the information has not percolated into the general domain because modern historians, writing mainly for one another, have lost the wider audience. ...
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Distilling a lifetime's scholarship, this meditation on the nature of history challenges hitherto sacrosanct assumptions about Ireland's past. The author explores the essential structure of what is called "Irish history" and asks provocative questions about popular misconceptions. Even where such misconceptions have been refuted by academic research, the author points out, the information has not percolated into the general domain because modern historians, writing mainly for one another, have lost the wider audience. Criticizing his own profession for purporting to be scientific while largely ignoring the implications of, for example, scientific archaeology, Stewart sets out to open up the closed shop of Irish history for the general reader.
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Very Good. Very light shelfwear to extremities of dustjacket, small inscription on inside front endpaper, otherwise fine. 200 p. Intended for professional and scholarly audience. Intended for college/higher education audience.
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Very Good. Size: 8vo-over 7"-9ÃÆ'‚Ã'¾" tall; 1st edition, very tight and clean, looks unread after first thirty pages or so, absolutely NO age toning, a few brackets in the margin on p. 17 only mark in text, boards look new & undamaged, dust jacket shows tiny closed tear top edge back of spine otherwise fine, Very Good Plus/Good Plus overall.
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Very good in very good dust jacket. Clean, no marks or tears, a hint of cornering, square, straight spine, block still relatively tight. Like unclipped dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 224 p. Audience: General/trade.
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