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Going to My Father's House

- A History of My Times
Af: Patrick Joyce Engelsk Hardback

Going to My Father's House

- A History of My Times
Af: Patrick Joyce Engelsk Hardback
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A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation<br><br>From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts?<br><br>Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.
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A historian's personal journey into the complex questions of immigration, home and nation<br><br>From Ireland to London in the 1950s, Derry in the Troubles to contemporary, de-industrialised Manchester, Joyce finds the ties of place, family and the past are difficult to break. Why do certain places continue to haunt us? What does it mean to be British after the suffering of Empire and of war? How do we make our home in a hypermobile world without remembering our pasts?<br><br>Patrick Joyce's parents moved from Ireland in the 1930s and made their home in west London. But they never really left the homeland. And so as he grew up among the streets of Paddington and Notting Hill and when he visited his family in Ireland he felt a tension between the notions of home, nation and belonging. Going to My Father's House charts the historian's attempt to make sense of these ties and to see how they manifest in a globalised world. He explores the places - the house, the street, the walls and the graves - that formed his own identity. He ask what place the ideas of history, heritage and nostalgia have in creating a sense of our selves. He concludes with a plea for a history that holds the past to account but also allows for dynamic, inclusive change.
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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 368
ISBN-13: 9781839763243
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1839763248
Kategori: Storbritannien
Udg. Dato: 27 jul 2021
Længde: 31mm
Bredde: 240mm
Højde: 162mm
Forlag: Verso Books
Oplagsdato: 27 jul 2021
Forfatter(e): Patrick Joyce
Forfatter(e) Patrick Joyce

Kategori Storbritannien

ISBN-13 9781839763243

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 368

Udgave

Længde 31mm

Bredde 240mm

Højde 162mm

Udg. Dato 27 jul 2021

Oplagsdato 27 jul 2021

Forlag Verso Books