Scripture Politics: Ulster Presbyterians and Irish Radicalism in the Late Eighteenth Century

ISBN-13: 9780198206422 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 288 str.

I. R. McBride; Ian McBride

Opis

Scripture Politics examines the central role played by Ulster Presbyterians in the birth of Irish republicanism. Ian McBride restores the United Irishmen to their eighteenth-century social context, restructuring a world where religious doctrine, political theory, and social antagonisms remained inextricably linked.

Recenzje

analytical, fair-minded, carefully non-polemical and generally excellent book. For something like two centuries, the study of their history, with a strong emphasis on theological matters, has been a feature of the self-understanding of the Irish Presbyterian clergy. it is not the least of Ian McBride's achievements that he has now linked this historiography, distinguished by the work of scholars such as Dr John Barkley and Dr Finlay Holmes, to the mainstream of history-writing on Ireland.