Looking Back: Living and Writing History by Oliver Macdonagh

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Looking Back: Living and Writing History by Oliver Macdonagh

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Summary

Few historians have paid as much attention as MacDonagh to the importance of style, and this is reflected in all the elements of this book. It ends with his tribute to John Henry Newman’s Apologia pro Vita Sua, a book that had been with me as a schoolboy, that had helped to shape me then, and since’.

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Looking Back: Living and Writing History by Oliver Macdonagh

Few historians have paid as much attention as MacDonagh to the importance of style, and this is reflected in all the elements of this book. It ends with his tribute to John Henry Newmans Apologia pro Vita Sua, a book that had been with me as a schoolboy, that had helped to shape me then, and since.

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TOM DUNNE is Professor Emeritus of History at University College Cork. His Rebellions: Memoir, Memory and 1798 won the 2005 Ewart-Biggs Memorial Prize.
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ISBN 13 9781843511434
ISBN 10 1843511436
Title Looking Back: Living and Writing History
Author Oliver Macdonagh
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Binding Type Hardback
Publisher The Lilliput Press Ltd
Year published 2008-10-28
Number of pages 228
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.