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  • Stone Mad

    by Seamus Murphy ...
    50th Anniversary Edition. Paperback.'In the sharply formal conversations of the stonemen, the bittersweet flavour of provincial Ireland is presented with neither sentiment nor adornment.' — William Trevor, The Guardian'The men who have gone before us have left us a heritage to be proud of; and we feel our own contribution has been for the good.' — Seamus Murphy, from the preface to Stone Mad.In ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • I Am the Beggar of the World

    Landays from Contemporary Afghanistan

    Translated by Eliza Griswold ...
    by Seamus Murphy ...
    I Am the Beggar of the World presents an eye-opening collection of clandestine poems by Afghan women.Because my love's American,blisters blossom on my heart.Afghans revere poetry, particularly the high literary forms that derive from Persian or Arabic. But the poem above is a folk couplet—a landay, an ancient oral and anonymous form created by and for mostly illiterate people: the more than 20 ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Confronting the Irish Past

    The 1912-1923 Decade in Light of the 1998 Good Friday Agreement

    by Séamus Murphy ...
    The 1998 Belfast (Good Friday) Agreement established power-sharing arrangements between the two divided communities in Northern Ireland. The Agreement is not set in stone but is rather a hopeful yet uncertain project. Making it put down deep cultural roots requires some confrontation with and transformation of the history, and the socially constructed memories, of Ireland’s decisive decade 1912 ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • The Casino and Society in Britain

    by Seamus Murphy ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern British History
    This book is a study of the British casino industry and how it has been shaped by criminality, prohibition, regulation and liberalization since the beginning of the First World War.The reader will gain a detailed knowledge of the history, culture, identity and participants within the British casino industry, which has, to date, escaped the attention of a dedicated historical and criminological ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Tiller Towards Trouble!

    by Séamus F. Murphy ...
    Dermot trains new youth sailors on the finer skills of crewing or team techniques and ends up learning a few things himself. Together they embark on a sailing adventure with Captain Thomas, Eva and Mr. Séamus outside of their safe harbor to discover their independence and how polluted their beautiful ocean is. Can they find a creative solution to the plastic prison? ... Read more

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  • Ireland

    A Social and Cultural History 1922–2001

    by Dr. Terence Brown ...
    The seminal history of Ireland’s most unusual century, thoroughly updated for the new millennium.With its starting point the bloody creation of the Irish Free State in 1922, Ireland: A Social and Cultural History explores how Irish identity has shifted across eighty years of unprecedented change and violence. What was the legacy of De Valera and Sinn Fein – or of remaining neutral during the ... Read more

    $8.49 USD

  • Nineteenth-Century Britain

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Colin Matthew, Christopher Harvie ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    First published as part of the best-selling The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, Christopher Harvie and Colin Matthew's Very Short Introduction to Nineteenth-Century Britain is a sharp but subtle account of remarkable economic and social change and an even more remarkable political stability. Britain in 1789 was overwhelmingly rural, agrarian, multilingual, and almost half Celtic. By 1914, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Pursuit of History

    Aims, Methods and New Directions in the Study of History

    by John Tosh ...
    This classic introduction to the study of history invites the reader to stand back and consider some of its most fundamental questions – what is the point of studying history? How do we know about the past? Does an objective historical truth exist and can we ever access it?In answering these central questions, John Tosh argues that, despite the impression of fragmentation created by Postmodernism ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • The Penguin Social History of Britain

    Private Lives, Public Spirit: Britain 1870-1914

    by Dr Jose Harris ...
    The late nineteenth century and Edwardian era, suggests Jose Harris in this book, represent a sharp break with the early years of Queen Victoria's reign. Indeed, despite the intense upheavals of two world wars, it was the beliefs, social structures and oppositional forces established between 1870 and 1914 which dominated British life right up until the 1960s. ... Read more

    $14.59 USD

  • Imperial nostalgia

    How the British conquered themselves

    by Peter Mitchell ...
    A strong emotional attachment to the memory of empire runs deep in British culture. In recent years, that memory has become a battleground in a long-drawn ideological war, inflecting debates on race, class, gender, culture, the UK’s future and its place in the world. This provocative and passionate book surveys the scene of the imperial memory wars in contemporary Britain, exploring how the myths ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • The Twilight Years

    The Paradox of Britain Between the Wars

    by Richard Overy ...
    From a leading British historian, the story of how fear of war shaped modern EnglandBy the end of World War I, Britain had become a laboratory for modernity. Intellectuals, politicians, scientists, and artists?among them Arnold Toynbee, Aldous Huxley, and H. G. Wells?sought a vision for a rapidly changing world. Coloring their innovative ideas and concepts, from eugenics to Freud?s unconscious, ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 4, 1880 to the Present

    Edited by Thomas Bartlett ...
    Series series The Cambridge History of Ireland
    This final volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland covers the period from the 1880s to the present. Based on the most recent and innovative scholarship and research, the many contributions from experts in their field offer detailed and fresh perspectives on key areas of Irish social, economic, religious, political, demographic, institutional and cultural history. By situating the Irish story, ... Read more

    $45.09 USD