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Rituals and riots : sectarian violence and political culture in Ulster, 1784-1886 /
"Rituals and Riots has at its core a subject frequently ignored - the rioters themselves. Rather than focusing on political and religious leaders in a top-down model, Sean Farrell demonstrates how lower-class attitudes gave rise to violent clashes and dictated the responses of the elite. Farrel...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Lexington :
University Press of Kentucky,
©2000.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "Rituals and Riots has at its core a subject frequently ignored - the rioters themselves. Rather than focusing on political and religious leaders in a top-down model, Sean Farrell demonstrates how lower-class attitudes gave rise to violent clashes and dictated the responses of the elite. Farrell also penetrates the stereotypical images of the Irish Catholic as untrustworthy rebel and the Ulster Protestant as foreign oppressor in his discussion of the style and structure of nineteenth-century sectarian riots."--Jacket |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 252 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 222-237) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780813147772 0813147778 |