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Éamon de Valera : A Will to Power /
Ronan Fanning offers a reappraisal of the most famous, and most divisive, political figure in modern Irish history, reconciling Éamon de Valera's shortcomings with a recognition of his achievement as the statesman who embodied Irish independence and spared the nation decades of unproductive deb...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2016]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Map: Éamon de Valera's Homes in Blackrock
- Introduction
- 1. From Bruree to Blackrock
- 2. The Greening of Edward de Valera
- 3. Éamon de Valera and the 1916 Rising
- 4. The Assumption of Power, 1916-19
- 5. Mission to America, 1919-20
- 6. 1921: War and Peace
- 7. Catastrophe
- 8. A Glass Wall
- 9. The Path Back to Power
- 10. The Attainment of Independence, 1932-8
- 11. Independence Affirmed: Neutrality in World War II
- 12. De Valera's Ireland
- 13. Marking Time, 1948-59
- 14. Last Laps, 1959-75
- Conclusion
- References
- Select Bibliography
- Acknowledgements
- Index