Donald Akenson

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Donald Akenson is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, Queen's University at Kingston, Cornell University

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According to Wikipedia, Donald Harman Akenson is an American historian and author. Notably prolific, he has written at least 24 book-length, scholarly monographs, 4 jointly-authored scholarly books, 6 works of fiction and historical fiction, and 55 scholarly articles. He is a fellow of both the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society . He is also a Molson Prize Laureate, awarded for a lifetime contribution to Canadian culture . He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1984, and in 1992 he won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, then the richest non-fiction book prize in the world. Akenson received his B.A. from Yale University and his doctorate from Harvard University. He is Distinguished University Professor and Douglas Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, and was simultaneously Beamish Research Professor at the Institute of Irish Studies, University of Liverpool , and senior editor of the McGill-Queen's University Press .

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The Irish Education Experiment: The National System of Education in the Nineteenth Century (1970) (142)
God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster (1992) (136)
Why Ireland Starved: A Quantitative and Analytical History of the Irish Economy, 1800-1850 (1984) (128)
The Irish Diaspora: A Primer. (1995) (90)
The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland (1994) (86)
Ireland and Empire: Colonial Legacies in Irish History and Culture (2001) (58)
Education and Enmity: The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland, 1920-50 (1974) (54)
Classics or charity? : the dilemma of the 18th century grammar school (1973) (48)
Half the world from home: Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand, 1860-1950 (1990) (48)
A Mirror to Kathleen's Face: Education in Independent Ireland 1922-60 (1975) (40)
Davitt and Irish Revolution, 1846-82 (1983) (32)
An Agnostic View of the Historiography of the Irish-Americans (1984) (30)
Canadian papers in rural history (1981) (29)
The Historiography of English-Speaking Canada and the Concept of Diaspora: A Sceptical Appreciation (1995) (28)
Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922, an International Perspective (1988) (26)
Being Had: Historians, Evidence, and the Irish in North America. (1985) (26)
If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 (1997) (22)
Home Rule: An Irish History, 1800–2000 (2004) (20)
The Irish Labour Movement in the Nineteenth Century (1988) (18)
Wealth Distribution in Nova Scotia during the Confederation Era, 1851 and 1871 (1992) (15)
The United States and Ireland (1973) (13)
God's People: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel and Ulster (1992) (11)
Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914 (2011) (10)
Why the Accepted Estimates of Ethnicity of the American People, 1790, Are Unacceptable (1984) (9)
An Irish History Of Civilization (2005) (9)
The Church of Ireland : ecclesiastical reform and revolution, 1800-1885 (1973) (8)
Occasional Papers On The Irish In South Africa (1991) (8)
The Fall and Rise of the Irish Nation: The Catholic Question, 1690–1830 (1993) (8)
The Church of Ireland (1971) (8)
Being Had: Historians, Evidence and the Irish in North America (1986) (8)
Comparative aspects of Scottish and Irish economic and social history, 1600-1900 (1980) (7)
The Orangeman, the Life and Times of Ogle Gowan (1989) (7)
Patterns of English Educational Change: The Fisher and the Butler Acts (1971) (7)
Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus (2000) (6)
Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien (1994) (6)
Religion and Identity: The Experience of Irish and Scottish Catholics in Atlantic Canada ed. by Terence Murphy, and Cyril J. Byrne (review) (2016) (5)
Irishness in a Changing Society (1990) (4)
A Protestant in Purgatory: Richard Whatley, Archbishop of Dublin (1982) (3)
The Slopes of the Andes: Four Essays on the Rural Myth in Ontario by Royce MacGillivray (review) (2016) (3)
Was De Valera a Republican? (1971) (3)
‘Rage against the Dying of the Light’: Interpreting the Guerre des Éteignoirs (2000) (3)
The Politics of Antagonism: Understanding Northern Ireland: O'Leary, Brendon and John McGarry: London, UK: Athlone Press, 358 pp., Publication Date: February 1993 (1994) (3)
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America by Kerby A. Miller (review) (2016) (3)
Cormac O'Grada — Black '47 and Beyond: The Great Irish Famine in History, Economy, and Memory (2002) (2)
Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922; An International Perspective. (1989) (2)
Vere Foster, 1819-1900: an Irish benefactor (1971) (2)
Between Two Revolutions: Islandmagee, County Antrim 1798-1920 (1979) (2)
John Blake Dillon, young Irelander (1990) (2)
At Face Value: The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White (1990) (2)
The Irish in North America: Catholic or Protestant? (1991) (2)
A distant shore : Irish migration & New Zealand settlement (2000) (2)
‘Ever more “Diaspora”: Advances and Alarums’ (2010) (1)
THE IRISH TEXTBOOKS CONTROVERSY AND THE GOSPEL OF FREE TRADE (1970) (1)
Emigration and the Labouring Poor: Australian Recruitment in Britain and Ireland, 1831-60, by Robin F. Haines (1999) (1)
Pre-university education, 1921–84 (2003) (1)
Farmlife in Northeastern Scotland, 1840-1914. The Poor Man's Country (1982) (1)
The changing uses of the liberal arts college : an essay in recent educational history (1969) (1)
Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective (1989) (1)
Canadian Papers in Rural History, Vol. III (1983) (1)
This Side of Heaven: Determining the Donnelly Murders, 1880 by Norman N. Feltes (review) (2016) (0)
Prostitution and Irish Society, 1800-1940, by Maria Luddy (2008) (0)
The Case of Valentine Shortis: A True Story of Crime and Politics in Canada by Martin L. Friedland (review) (2016) (0)
The Lay Teacher. Patrick S. Duffy (1968) (0)
Kevin O'Neill — Famine and Farm in Pre-Famine Ireland. The Parish of Killeshandra. (1985) (0)
After Axial Stress (2011) (0)
The Land Question and the Irish Economy, 1879-1903, by Barbara Lewis Solow (1972) (0)
Historical Archaeology of the Irish Diaspora: A Transnational Approach (review) (2011) (0)
C. DESMOND GREAVES. The Irish Crisis. Pp. 222. New York: International, 1972. $2.65. Paperbound (1973) (0)
Were They in the Same Boat (2011) (0)
Leading Sectors: Sweden (2011) (0)
The Transmeridian Trail (1985) (0)
Deprivation and Famine (2011) (0)
Pre-university education, 1870–1921 (2010) (0)
II. The Rise of Nationalism (1973) (0)
SOME BUREAUCRATIC ARCHAEOLOGY, 1831–49 (2012) (0)
America and the Making of an Independent Ireland: A History by Francis M. Carroll (2021) (0)
Canadian Papers in Rural History, Volume IV (1985) (0)
THE IRISH NATIONAL SYSTEM AS AN EDUCATIONAL SURPRISE (2012) (0)
OVER THE HILL AND INTO THE WOODS, 1850–70 (2012) (0)
IV. From Apparent Unity to Civil War (1973) (0)
Diaspora, The Irish, And Irish Nationalism (2010) (0)
III. The United States and Irish Nationalism (1973) (0)
The Burning of Bridget Cleary, and: The Cooper's Wife is Missing: The Trials of Bridget Cleary (review) (2002) (0)
Progress and Controversy, 1925-30 (2013) (0)
Dublin: The Making of a Capital City by David Dickson (review) (2015) (0)
Appendix. Facts About Ireland (1973) (0)
XII. Southern Ireland in the Commonwealth and in the World (1973) (0)
Two Such Different Worlds: Edward J. Hedican and Catherine Anne Wilson on Family and Community in Rural Ontario in the Victorian era (2023) (0)
Reviews of Books (2003) (0)
Emmet Larkin. The Roman Catholic Church and the Creation of the Modern Irish State, 1878–1886. (Memoirs of the American Philosophical Society, number 108.) Philadelphia: the Society. 1975. Pp. xxiv, 412. $7.50 (1977) (0)
Kerby A. Miller, Arnold Schrier, Bruce D. Boling, and David N. Doyle, eds. Irish Immigrants in the Land of Canaan: Letters and Memoirs from Colonial and Revolutionary America, 1675–1815 . New York: Oxford University Press, 2003. Pp. 788. $80.00. (2006) (0)
VIII. Religion and Values (1973) (0)
Desmond Bowen. The Protestant Crusade in Ireland, 1800–70: A Study of Protestant-Catholic Relations Between the Act of Union and Disestablishment. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. 1978. Pp. xiv, 412. $23.95 (1979) (0)
Ireland's New Worlds: Immigrants, Politics, and Society in the United States and Australia, 1815-1922 [Book Review] (2008) (0)
Reviews of Books:Chosen Peoples Anthony D. Smith (2005) (0)
VI. Southern Politics in the Collectivist Age (1973) (0)
The hedge schools of Ireland. By Patrick John Dowling. Cork : Mercier Press. Pp 126. Paperback edition. 1968. 6s. (1968) (0)
Educational Documents, 800–1816. By D. W. Sylvester. Pp 290. London : Methuen. 1970. £3 hard cover, £1.50 soft cover. (1971) (0)
2. Perhaps God Is Irish: Sacred Texts as Virtual Reality Machine (2010) (0)
X. Continuing Southern Nationalism (1973) (0)
The People With No Name (Book) (2002) (0)
Dublin: The Making of a Capital City. By David Dickson (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 2013) 718 pp. $35.00 (2015) (0)
Black ’47. Britain and the Famine Irish, by Frank NealBlack ’47. Britain and the Famine Irish, by Frank Neal. London, Macmillan Ltd. and New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1998. xv, 292 pp. $69.95 U.S. (1998) (0)
VII. Southern Ireland and the International Economy (1973) (0)
A Most Controlled Country (2011) (0)
Donal A. Kerr. “A Nation of Beggars”? Priests, People, and Politics in Famine Ireland, 1846–1852. New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1994. Pp. 370. $65.00 (1996) (0)
The Invention of 'Two Traditions' (1991) (0)
The sash Canada wore: A historical geography of the Orange Order in Canada . By Cecil J. Houston and William J. Smyth. Pp ix, 215. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. 1980. $Can. 15.00. (1982) (0)
XI. Once Again an Ulster Question (1973) (0)
National school inspection in Ireland: the beginnings . By Eustás Ó Héideáin. Pp 123. Dublin : Scepter Publishers Ltd. 1967. Paperback. 21s. (1968) (0)
Richard L. Greaves. God's Other Children: Protestant Nonconformists and the Emergence of Denominational Churches in Ireland, 1660–1700. Stanford: Stanford University Press. 1997. Pp. xii, 472 (1999) (0)
:The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900 . By Mary Peckham Magray ( New York , Oxford University Press , 1998 ) 182 pp. $45.00 (1999) (0)
The Troubles in Perspective (1987) (0)
Convergence as Success (2011) (0)
Irish Land and British Politics. Tenant-Right and Nationality, 1865-1870, by E. D. Steele (1975) (0)
Ireland in the War Years: 1939–1945: Carroll, Joseph T.: New York: Crane, Russak and Co., 190 pp., Publication Date: June 1975 (1975) (0)
IX. Social Flux and Social Management (1973) (0)
Hurt, J.S. Elementary Schooling and the Working Classes, 1860-1918. London: Routlege and Kegan Paul [Toronto: University of Toronto Press], 1979. Pp. x, 241 (1980) (0)
Education and Enmity (Routledge Revivals) : The Control of Schooling in Northern Ireland 1920-50 (2013) (0)
Bayor, Ronald H. and Timothy J. Meagher, eds. The New York Irish. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996. Pp. xxii, 743. Tables, maps, photos, index. U.S.$ 45.00 (1996) (0)
V. The Creation of Northern Ireland (1973) (0)
THE EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY BACKGROUND (2012) (0)
Anthony D. Smith. Chosen Peoples. New York: Oxford University Press. 2003 Pp. xxi, 330. $29.95 (2005) (0)
The Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology, by Ian McBrideThe Siege of Derry in Ulster Protestant Mythology, by Ian McBride. Dublin, Four Courts Press (distributed by I.S.B.S.), 1997. 93 pp. $35.00 U.S. (1998) (0)
Shouldn't They Be Leaving in Droves? (2011) (0)
The Perpetual Experience (1991) (0)
The Grass Is Greener (1994) (0)
Leading Sectors: Ireland (2011) (0)
Donal A. Kerr. Peel, Priests, and Politics: Sir Robert Peel's Administration and the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1841–1846. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) New York: Clarendon Press of Oxford University Press. 1982. Pp. viii, 399. $49.50 (1984) (0)
Canadian Papers in Rural History, Volume I@@@Canadian Papers in Rural History, Volume II (1980) (0)
Sean Farrell. Rituals and Riots. Sectarian Violence and Political Culture in Ulster, 1784–1886. Lexington: University Press of Kentucky. 2000. Pp. ix, 252. $34.95 (2001) (0)
An Ascendancy Army. The Irish Yeomanry, 1796-1834, by Allan B. Blackstock (1999) (0)
Douglas Hyde: A Maker of Modern Ireland: Dunleavy, Janet Egleson and Gareth W. Dunleavy: Berkeley, CA: University of California Press 462 pp., Publication Date: 1991 (1992) (0)
Nationalism and Some Celts (1970) (0)
Drew Keeling. The Business of Transatlantic Migration between Europe and the United States, 1900–1914. (2014) (0)
Emmet Larkin. The Making of the Roman Catholic Church in Ireland, 1850–1860. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press. 1980. Pp. xxiv, 520. $24.00 (1981) (0)
David Hempton and Myrtle Hill. Evangelical Protestantism in Ulster Society, 1740–1890 . New York: Routledge, Chapman a Hall. 1992. Pp. xiv, 212. $67.50. (1993) (0)
The Transforming Power of the Nuns: Women, Religion, and Cultural Change in Ireland, 1750-1900 (review) (1999) (0)
Reviews of Books:The People with No Name: Ireland's Ulster Scots, America's Scots Irish, and the Creation of a British Atlantic World, 1689-1764 Patrick Griffin (2002) (0)
Emigrants and Exiles: Ireland and the Irish Exodus to North America.@@@The Irish in Ontario: A Study in Rural History. (1987) (0)
Patrick Buckland. Irish Unionism 2: Ulster Unionism and the Origins of Northern Ireland 1886-1922. Pp. xv, 207. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1973. $11.50 (1974) (0)
Small Differences-Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective. (1988) (0)
I. The Geographic and Historical Framework (1973) (0)
Landscapes with Figures (1980) (0)

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