Trials of Irish history :
genesis and evolution of a reappraisal, 1938-2000 /
Evi Gkotzaridis.
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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 ;
7 |
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-317) and index. Physical description: xi, 324 p. ; 24 cm. more |
| ISBN: | 0415329183 (hardback : alk. paper) |
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.
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.