Feargal Cochrane
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300178708
- eISBN:
- 9780300194869
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300178708.003.0003
- Subject:
- History, British and Irish Modern History
This chapter focuses on the reasons for political violence in Northern Ireland during the period of 1921–1972. The emergence of political violence in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s was ...
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This chapter focuses on the reasons for political violence in Northern Ireland during the period of 1921–1972. The emergence of political violence in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s was entirely predictable. The fact that it was not predicted by those who had the capacity to do something about it partly explains why it broke out in the first place. The violence was a product of political dysfunction on the one hand and, on the other, the grievances and frustrations of the nationalist community. It combined negatively with the fear and insecurity of the unionist population and the wilful neglect and ignorance of the British government. The chapter argues that politics failed, from its formation in 1921 until its suspension in 1972, because of a corrupt political system. The grievances smouldered and intensified during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and only required a spark to ignite them.Less
This chapter focuses on the reasons for political violence in Northern Ireland during the period of 1921–1972. The emergence of political violence in Northern Ireland at the end of the 1960s was entirely predictable. The fact that it was not predicted by those who had the capacity to do something about it partly explains why it broke out in the first place. The violence was a product of political dysfunction on the one hand and, on the other, the grievances and frustrations of the nationalist community. It combined negatively with the fear and insecurity of the unionist population and the wilful neglect and ignorance of the British government. The chapter argues that politics failed, from its formation in 1921 until its suspension in 1972, because of a corrupt political system. The grievances smouldered and intensified during the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s, and only required a spark to ignite them.
Richard C. Keller
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- January 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780226251110
- eISBN:
- 9780226256436
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226256436.003.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Chapter 1 relates a chronology of the disaster. Drawing on media accounts and the reports of a number of state agencies as well as hearings in the French National Assembly, it discusses the heat ...
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Chapter 1 relates a chronology of the disaster. Drawing on media accounts and the reports of a number of state agencies as well as hearings in the French National Assembly, it discusses the heat wave's meteorological origins and effects, describes its impact on the French population, and presents an outline of individual and government responses to the crisis. Its scope includes the seven weeks between the onset of the heat wave and the publication of the official report of the death tally, which established the disaster's excess mortality at 14,802 victims. It uncovers the day-to-day conditions of the heat wave, and emphasize the gradual realization of a catastrophe in the making. The chapter has several goals. One is to orient the reader to the disaster's scale and its wider political and social context. Another is to detail the dysfunction that characterized the state's response to the disaster. And a final goal is to indicate the ways in which media, political, and scientific accounts of the disaster—as it unfolded and in its immediate aftermath—portrayed the heat wave's victims in a light that exacerbated their vulnerability through a relentless emphasis on their marginality.Less
Chapter 1 relates a chronology of the disaster. Drawing on media accounts and the reports of a number of state agencies as well as hearings in the French National Assembly, it discusses the heat wave's meteorological origins and effects, describes its impact on the French population, and presents an outline of individual and government responses to the crisis. Its scope includes the seven weeks between the onset of the heat wave and the publication of the official report of the death tally, which established the disaster's excess mortality at 14,802 victims. It uncovers the day-to-day conditions of the heat wave, and emphasize the gradual realization of a catastrophe in the making. The chapter has several goals. One is to orient the reader to the disaster's scale and its wider political and social context. Another is to detail the dysfunction that characterized the state's response to the disaster. And a final goal is to indicate the ways in which media, political, and scientific accounts of the disaster—as it unfolded and in its immediate aftermath—portrayed the heat wave's victims in a light that exacerbated their vulnerability through a relentless emphasis on their marginality.
Carla Calarge, Raphael Dalleo, and Luis Duno-Gottberg (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- March 2014
- ISBN:
- 9781617037573
- eISBN:
- 9781621039334
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781617037573.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, Latin American History
Haiti has long played an important role in the global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about it often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom ...
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Haiti has long played an important role in the global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about it often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as the site of the world’s only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism, or is its main lesson one of failure? This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize the ways that Haiti has been represented over time, and to look at Haiti’s own cultural expressions in order to think about alternative ways of imagining its culture and history. Thinking about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes. Haiti is often represented as the region’s nadir of poverty, of political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation, unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness that is in need of more powerful neighbors to take control. Contributors to the book present a fuller picture, developing approaches that can account for the complexity of Haitian history and culture.Less
Haiti has long played an important role in the global perception of the western hemisphere, but ideas about it often appear paradoxical. Is it a land of tyranny and oppression or a beacon of freedom as the site of the world’s only successful slave revolution? A bastion of devilish practices or a devoutly religious island? Does its status as the second independent nation in the hemisphere give it special lessons to teach about postcolonialism, or is its main lesson one of failure? This book brings together an interdisciplinary group of essays to examine the influence of Haiti throughout the hemisphere, to contextualize the ways that Haiti has been represented over time, and to look at Haiti’s own cultural expressions in order to think about alternative ways of imagining its culture and history. Thinking about Haiti requires breaking through a thick layer of stereotypes. Haiti is often represented as the region’s nadir of poverty, of political dysfunction, and of savagery. Contemporary media coverage fits very easily into the narrative of Haiti as a dependent nation, unable to govern or even fend for itself, a site of lawlessness that is in need of more powerful neighbors to take control. Contributors to the book present a fuller picture, developing approaches that can account for the complexity of Haitian history and culture.
