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  • Sacred and Secular Martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914

    by John Wolffe ...
    During and immediately after the First World War, there was a merging of Christian and nationalist traditions of martyrdom, expressed in the design of war cemeteries and war memorials, and the state funeral of the Unknown Warrior in 1920. John Wolffe explores the subsequent development of these traditions of 'sacred' and 'secular' martyrdom, analysing the ways in which they operated - sometimes in ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • Irish Religious Conflict in Comparative Perspective

    Catholics, Protestants and Muslims

    by John Wolffe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    By setting the Irish religious conflict in a wide comparative perspective, this book offers fresh insights into the causes of religious conflicts, and potential means of resolving them. The collection mounts a challenge to views of 'Irish exceptionalism' and points to significant historical and contemporary commonalities across the Western world. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Protestant-Catholic Conflict from the Reformation to the 21st Century

    The Dynamics of Religious Difference

    by John Wolffe ...
    Series series History (R0)
    Taking a fresh look at the roots and implications of the enduring major historic fissure in Western Christianity, this book presents new insights into the historical dynamics of Protestant-Catholic conflict while illuminating present-day contexts and suggesting comparisons for approaching other entrenched conflicts in which religion is implicated. ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • God and Greater Britain

    Religion and National Life in Britain and Ireland, 1843-1945

    by John Wolffe ...
    Concern and debate over the role of religion in the make up of the United Kingdom is a contemporaneously relevant as it was in the nineteenth century. God and Greater Britain is a survey of the contribution of religion to society, politics, culture and national self-understanding in Britain and Ireland at a pivotal period in their historical development. It derives from primary research as well as ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • A Short History of Global Evangelicalism

    by Mark Hutchinson, John Wolffe ...
    This book offers an authoritative overview of the history of evangelicalism as a global movement, from its origins in Europe and North America in the first half of the eighteenth century to its present-day dynamic growth in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Oceania. Starting with a definition of the movement within the context of the history of Protestantism, it follows the history of evangelicalism ... Read more

    $39.39 USD

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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

  • The Death of Christian Britain

    Understanding Secularisation, 1800–2000

    by Callum G. Brown ...
    Series series Christianity and Society in the Modern World
    The Death of Christian Britain examines how the nation’s dominant religious culture has been destroyed. Callum Brown challenges the generally held view that secularization was a long and gradual process dating from the industrial revolution. Instead, he argues that it has been a catastrophic and abrupt cultural revolution starting in the 1960s. Using the latest techniques of gender analysis, and ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

  • Nationalist Revolutionaries in Ireland 1858-1928

    Patriots, Priests and the Roots of the Irish Revolution

    by Tom Garvin ...
    The present-day Republic of Ireland was created by a revolutionary elite which developed between 1858 and 1914. Here, one of Ireland's most eminent historians, Professor Tom Garvin, considers the social origins of the revolutionary politicians who became the rulers of Ireland after the 1916 Rising and examines their political preconceptions, ideologies and prejudices. In many cases they were not ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • When God Took Sides

    Religion and Identity in Ireland - Unfinished History

    by Marianne Elliott ...
    The struggle between Catholic and Protestant has shaped Irish history since the Reformation, with tragic consequences up to the present day. But how do Catholics and Protestants in Ireland see each other? And how do they view their own communities and what these communities stand for? Tracing the history of religious identities in Ireland over the last three centuries, Marianne Elliott argues that ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Bible War In Ireland

    The 'Second Reformation' and the Polarization of Protestant-Catholic Relations, 1800-1840

    by Irene Whelan ...
    At the end of the eighteenth century an evangelical movement gained enormous popularity at all levels of Irish society. Initially driven by the enthusiasm and commitment of Methodists and Dissenters, it quickly gained ascendancy in the Church of Ireland, where its unique blend of moral improvement and conservative piety appealed to those threatened by the democratic revolution and the demands of ... Read more

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Freedom and Order

    History, Politics and the English Bible

    by Nick Spencer ...
    2011 marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James' Bible and will see a great deal of celebration and comment about the impact of the Bible on British culture. Much of the story is well-known, such as the Bible's seminal influence on British language and literature, but one aspect - the influence of the Bible on English politics - is largely unknown or ignored. Moreover, when ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • The Causes of the English Revolution 1529-1642

    by Lawrence Stone ...
    Series series Routledge Classics
    Dividing the nation and causing massive political change, the English Civil War remains one of the most decisive and dramatic conflicts of English history. Lawrence Stone's account of the factors leading up to the deposition of Charles I in 1642 is widely regarded as a classic in the field. Brilliantly synthesising the historical, political and sociological interpretations of the seventeeth ... Read more

    $36.99 USD