Dublin: The Making of a Capital City - Hardcover

Dickson, David

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674744446 ISBN 13: 9780674744448

Verlag: The Belknap Press, 2014

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This history of Dublin is an insightful, deeply researched, witty volume, which anyone interested in Ireland, England, Georgian architecture, or the misadventures of nation-building will find fascinating.--Edward Short"Weekly Standard" (02/23/2015) I thought I knew the history of my hometown, Dublin, and then I read David Dickson's wise and stylish book...[An] eloquent book...Dickson's book was teaching me things about my hometown until almost the very last page.--Robert Cremins"Los Angeles Review of Books" (04/07/2015) [Dickson] distils a mountain of scholarship to illuminate the whole of Dublin's history. He is strongest on political and social change, informative too on the city's marvellous architecture... This is the fullest overview of the many transformations of one of the world's most enchanting cities.--Eamon Duffy "The Times " In Dublin, Dickson has woven together the city's social, economic, cultural, demographic and architectural histories; the story he tells will intrigue natives, enlighten newcomers and stand as a monument to this great city's place in an ever-changing Ireland.--John Gallagher "The Telegraph "

Reseña del editor:

As rich and diverse as its subject, Dickson's magisterial history brings 1,400 years of Dublin vividly to life: from its medieval incarnation through the neoclassical eighteenth century, the Easter Rising that convulsed the city in 1916, the bloody civil war following the handover of power by Britain, to end-of-millennium urban renewal efforts.

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• Verlag: The Belknap Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0674744446
• ISBN 13: 9780674744448
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 736