Peter Leary

Unapproved Routes: Histories of the Irish Border, 1922-1972

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Produktbeschreibung

Uses unique histories of life on the Irish Border to explore how politics, nation and the state intersected with everyday life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 452g
• ISBN-13: 9780198778578
• ISBN-10: 0198778570
• Artikelnr.: 45572376

Autorenporträt

Peter Leary is from Enniskillen in County Fermanagh. He studied at Goldsmiths', University of London and the University of Ulster at Magee in Derry, before completing a PhD in Irish History at Queen's University Belfast in 2014. He is currently the Canon Murray Fellow in Irish History at the University of Oxford.

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Introduction: 'A House Divided'
* 2: The Time of Partition and the Power of Space in the Evidence
Presented to the Irish Boundary Commission, 1925
* 3: 'The Big Fish and the Little Fellow': Property and Territory on
Lough and River Foyle
* 4: Cocks, Cops, and Writing-men: 'Deep Play' on the Irish border
* 5: Smuggling: A Border Perspective on Society, Culture, and Authority
* 6: Border-Crossing-Roads: Material Culture at the Limits of
Governmentality
* 7: Conclusions: Hegemony and Histories of the Everyday