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History India & South Asia

Irish History of Civilization, Volume 1

by (author) Don Akenson

Publisher
McGill-Queen's University Press
Initial publish date
Feb 2005
Category
India & South Asia, Ireland
  • eBook

    ISBN
    9780773572836
    Publish Date
    Feb 2005
    List Price
    $28.95

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In a sprawling chronicle of civilization through Irish eyes, Akenson takes us from St Patrick to Woodie Guthrie, from Constantine to John F. Kennedy, from India to the Australian outback. In two volumes of masterful storytelling he creates ironic, playful, and acerbic historical miniatures - a quixotic series of reconstructions woven into a helix in which the same historical figures reappear in radically different contexts as their narratives intersect with the larger picture.

About the author

Don Akenson is the author of numerous books including Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds (nominated for the Governor General's Award) and, most recently, Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself. He teache

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