New Books in Irish Studies

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  • Interviews with Scholars of Ireland about their New Books
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Interviews with Scholars of Ireland about their New Books
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  • Giovanna Ceserani, "A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour" (Stanford UP, 2024)
    2024/12/27
    In the eighteenth century, tens of thousands of travelers journeyed to Italy on the Grand Tour. These travels in the age of Enlightenment contributed to a massive reimagining of politics and the arts, of the market for culture, and of ideas about education and leisure. A World Made by Traval: A Digital Grand Tour (Stanford UP, 2024) combines —in dynamic format— original research with data and visualizations about the lives and journeys of 6,007 travelers. It reveals the diverse experiences, elite and otherwise, that collectively constituted the eighteenth-century Grand Tour. This digital publication transforms the foundational Dictionary of British and Irish Travellers in Italy, 1701–1800 (published by the Paul Mellon Centre [PMC] and compiled from the Brinsley Ford Archive held at the PMC) into an interactive and data-rich interface. It introduces more than a thousand new figures, including hundreds of women, servants, workers, and Italians not previously represented among the Dictionary's primary headings. This digital Grand Tour is more inclusive, and it addresses and invites vital questions about a historical phenomenon that has long been studied with a focus on the most elite and well-known travelers. A World Made by Travel is framed by introductory chapters explaining its digital approach, contains exemplary essays by leading scholars who worked with its data, and offers resources to help teachers bring this wealth of material into the classroom. By opening up pressing questions of scale and representation through its Explorer, it models how digital approaches involving shareable data can facilitate original research and generate new knowledge about the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    46 分
  • Maurice Casey, "Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism's Forgotten Radicals" (Footnote Press, 2024)
    2024/12/23
    Sexy young revolutionaries, a queer romance, and international communism--what more could you ask for?! In his brilliant new book, Hotel Lux: An Intimate History of Communism’s Forgotten Radicals (Footnote Press, 2024), Maurice Casey delivers up an intriguing story of friendship, love, and revolution in a story spanning decades and continents. Following May O’Callaghan, an Irish communist revolutionary with an impressive curricula vitae, and her two dearest friends Nellie Cohen and Emmy Leonhard, Casey takes us from London to Moscow to New York City to Mexico. In a clever narrative intervention, Casey also takes us with him to an attic in the Cotswolds and a shed in Galicia as he documents his own journey in researching this book. He tells his research story in a way that draws back the curtain not just on the immensely complex process of collecting the pieces of this narrative, but also on the duality of doing historical research: equal parts thrilling and heartbreaking. Join us as we chat about political intrigue, a host of fascinating--famous or forgotten--twentieth-century revolutionaries, an enduring friendship that built the blocks for a queer romance captured in incredible love letters, and one historian’s determination to follow the breadcrumbs to the satisfying conclusion of an international story. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    40 分
  • Megan Rae Blakely, "Technology, Intellectual Property Law, and Culture: The Tangification of Cultural Heritage" (Routledge, 2024)
    2024/11/25
    How can we protect diverse cultural expressions in an era of huge technological change? In Technology, Intellectual Property Law and Culture: The Tangification of Intangible Cultural Heritage (Routledge, 2024), Megan Rae Blakely, a lecturer in law at Lancaster University, examines the contemporary international legal context for heritage. The book uses three detailed case studies of Scotland, Ireland, and Wales, considering heritage in many different forms, from tourism and nation branding through to language and clothing. Rich in detail, but accessible for a those who are not specialists in law, technology, or heritage, the book is essential reading across the humanities and social sciences, as well as for anyone interested in how best to support and preserve the past. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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    42 分

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