The Course of Irish History - Hardcover

The Course of Irish History

Soft cover. Zustand: Good. 9th Printing. Paperback. Wear to bottom edge of spine. Previous owners name and address sticker to Contents page. Couple of small marks to edge. This book is the first of its kind - a rapid survey, with a geographical introduction, of the whole course of ireland history from the middle stone age to 1966, written by 21 scholars, all specialists in their own fields. Based on the successful series of television programmes first transmitted by Radio Telefis Eireann from January to June 1966, the book is designed to be 'both popular and authoratitive, concise but comprehensive, highly selective while at the same time balanced and fair-minded, critical but constructive and sympathetic'. The text is lavishly illustrated with carefully selected reproductions of contemporary pictures, with photographs of landscape, field monuments and other objects of historical interest, and with a series of maps specially drawn. For those who wish to pursue the subject, extensive lists of books for further reading are appended. A chronology of irish history is also provided, to assist readers in following the sequence of events and to supplement the information in the narrative. Illustrated. 404 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.). Artikel-Nr. 080146

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