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Ireland
Acclaimed political, social, cultural and economic history of Ireland from prehistory to the present by one of Ireland's leading historians.
A Military History of Ireland
This is a major, collaborative study of organised military activity and its broad impact on Ireland over the last thousand years or so, from the middle of the first millennium AD to modern times. It integrates the best recent scholarship in military history into its social and political context to provide a comprehensive treatment of the Irish military experience. The eighteen chronologically-organised chapters are written by leading scholars each of whom is an authority on the period in question. Drawing the whole work together is a wide-ranging introductory essay on the 'Irish military tradition' which explores the relationship of Irish society and politics with militarism and military affairs. The text is illustrated throughout by over 120 pictures and maps.
Hybrid Voices and Collaborative Change
This book frames an in-depth analysis of institutional discourse between indigenous communities and government and non-government groups in Guyana with an account of the sociocultural setting, challenging assumptions around the top-down nature of power in language.
Analysing Power in Language
Analysing Power in Language introduces students to a range of analytical techniques for the critical study of texts.Each section of the book provides an in-depth presentation of a different method of analysis with worked examples and texts for students to analyse and discuss. Answer keys are also provided for the analyses. Taking text analysis as the first step in discourse analysis, Analysing Power in Language: Explores the relationship between the goals of discourse, the social positions of the speakers, the contexts in which they are produced, the audience for which they are intended and the language features chosen Presents a powerful approach to text analysis that reveals the links betw...
Who Fears Hell Runs Toward It
This thesis seeks to address a number of serious problems in the prison theories of Michel Foucault. It argues that no explanation for the rise of corrective penalty in the United States can be sufficient without inclusion of the topic of Christian salvation. By applying the work of Charles Taylor to this problem, it argues that the current mass incarceration regime was the inevitable byproduct of a system of punishment that was designed not to create a more socially useful bourgeois citizen but rather to subject the convict to the most Gothically hellish environment imaginable for the purpose of spiritual salvation. Instead of relying on the utopian, sentimental and ultimately empirically dubious discourse of the prison reformers, this thesis analyzes autobiographical sources for evidence of the precise sort of subjectivity created by the prison environment. In particular, it explores the ways that the panoptic regime can produce resistance instead of salvation.
Systemic Functional Linguistics: Exploring Choice
Bringing together a global team, this stimulating volume provides fresh perspectives on choice, a key notion in systemic functional linguistics.
The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics
The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics brings together internationally renowned scholars of systemic functional linguistics (SFL) to provide a space for critical examination of the key tenets underpinning SFL theory. Uniquely, it includes description of the three main strands within contemporary SFL scholarship: Halliday’s Introduction to Functional Grammar, Martin’s discourse semantics and Fawcett’s Cardiff Grammar. In five sections and thirty-eight interdisciplinary chapters, this is the first handbook to cover the whole architecture of SFL theory, comprising: the ontology and epistemology of SFL; SFL as a clause grammar; lexicogrammar below the clause, and SFL’s approach to constituency; SFL’s vibrant theory of language above the clause; and SFL as a theory of praxis with real-world applications. With a wide range of language examples, a comprehensive editors’ introduction and a section on further reading, The Routledge Handbook of Systemic Functional Linguistics is an essential resource for all those studying and researching SFL or functional grammar.
Why Can the Dead Do Such Great Things?
A sweeping, authoritative, and entertaining history of the Christian cult of the saints from its origin to the Reformation From its earliest centuries, one of the most notable features of Christianity has been the veneration of the saints—the holy dead. This ambitious history tells the fascinating story of the cult of the saints from its origins in the second-century days of the Christian martyrs to the Protestant Reformation. Robert Bartlett examines all of the most important aspects of the saints—including miracles, relics, pilgrimages, shrines, and the saints' role in the calendar, literature, and art. The book explores the central role played by the bodies and body parts of saints, and the special treatment these relics received. From the routes, dangers, and rewards of pilgrimage, to the saints' impact on everyday life, Bartlett's account is an unmatched examination of an important and intriguing part of the religious life of the past—as well as the present.
