Employing a chronology that is not bound by traditional datelines, this volume moves beyond the familiar political narrative to engage with the economy, society, population, emigration, religion, language, state formation, culture, art and ...

A highly original collection of essays, demonstrating how comic books can be used as primary sources in the teaching and understanding of American history.

This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present.

The Wealth of Nature captures the fruit of what Worster calls "my own intellectual turning to the land." History, he writes, represents a dialogue between humanity and nature--though it is usually reported as if it were simple dictation.

The result is a new interpretation of Irish history in its wider imperial context which is also filled with insights on the origins, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.This book offers the first comprehensive history of Ireland ...

Readers are also directed to an online archive of continually updated international case studies that serve to complement and explicate the theoretical discussions outlined in the text.

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day.