Trials of Irish history : genesis and evolution of a reappraisal, 1938-2000 /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2006.
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| Series: | Routledge studies in modern European history ;
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| Online Access: | Table of contents Publisher description |
Table of Contents:
- The intellectual mood in the 1990s
- The revisionist: a new type of intellectual
- Internal critique: vicissitudes and potentials
- The loss of history and the new historians' fight against propaganda on the Irish and continental "front"
- The clash between the new historians and the bureau of military history
- Weaknesses in ethnographic method
- Theoretical underpinnings and their impact
- The claims of memory and critique
- The epistemological and philosophical position of Irish revisionism
- The revolution comes under revisionist scrutiny
- The concept of totalitarianism: comparison and its pitfalls
- Revision, deconstruction, semiology: similar methods?
- Relativism and its opponents
- The problematic of ends and means
- Grappling with the problem of objectivity.