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Humanity has transformed the Earth:\u003cb\u003e Frankopan transforms our understanding of history\u003c\/b\u003e * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eThis is epic, \u003cb\u003egripping\u003c\/b\u003e, original history that \u003cb\u003eleaps off the page\u003c\/b\u003e. I wanted to buy everyone I know a copy -- Sathnam Sanghera\u003cbr\u003eAll Historians aiming to tell a narrative face the problem of when exactly to start it. Only Peter Frankopan would go back 2.5 billion years to the Great Oxidation Event -- Tom Holland\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eVast, learned and timely work\u003c\/b\u003e * Sunday Times *\u003cbr\u003eA \u003cb\u003edazzling\u003c\/b\u003e compendium of global research . . . 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It's \u003cb\u003ea book for the ages\u003c\/b\u003e, and I cannot recommend it enough -- Adam Rutherford\u003cbr\u003e[Frankopan] has attempted successfully, and \u003cb\u003edeftly\u003c\/b\u003e, what few others have and provided an overarching perspective of the way climatic events and trends, geography and human opportunism have intertwined and defined Homo sapiens’ relationship with the planet * Geographical *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e makes\u003cb\u003e a major contribution to raising awareness and concern\u003c\/b\u003e, and hopefully will reach those decision makers, in the political and commercial spheres, who might have the power and means to do something about it. 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Marries a serious, timely subject – the story of humanity from the perspective of climate change, both natural and man-made – with \u003cb\u003ethumpingly readable prose\u003c\/b\u003e. Frankopan may be an Oxford professor, but this is an exercise in scholarship worn gossamer-lightly. \u003ci\u003eThe Earth Transformed\u003c\/i\u003e is a testament to the awesome value of in-depth research. \u003cb\u003eFrankopan’s skill is to create a new genre: the ecological epic history\u003c\/b\u003e -- Alexander Larman * Daily Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003ePeter’s book is an\u003cb\u003e incredible\u003c\/b\u003e, must read, magnum opus on the history of humanity and the environment, and I THOROUGHLY suggest you read it -- Greg Jenner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRaises fresh and urgent questions\u003c\/b\u003e . . . in characteristically \u003cb\u003epacey style\u003c\/b\u003e . . . 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HigginsINTRODUCTIONSection I BEFORE THE REVOLUTIONChapter 1 Nineteenth-century Ireland: transformed contexts and class structures (Willie Smyth)Chapter 2 Conflict, Reaction and Control in the Nineteenth Century: the archaeology of revolution (Willie Smyth)Box: Arrests Made Under the Protection of Persons and Property Act, between March 1881 and July 1882 (Frank Rynne)Case study: Living Conditions in 1911 as Reflected in the Census Record Urban and Rural Examples (Catriona Crowe)Chapter 3 Irish Elites: continuity and change (Peter Hession)Chapter 4 Violence and Moderation: the dilemmas of constitutional nationalism (Patrick Maume)Case study: Ranch War (Patrick Cosgrove)Chapter 5 Literary Revival (Margaret Kelleher)Case study: Theatre and the Coming Revolution (Lionel Pilkington)Chapter 6 The Gaelic Revival (Timothy McMahon)Box: The Coming Revolution: 1913 Oireachtas, Galway (Dara Folan)Chapter 7 Horace Plunkett, the Co-operative Movement and the Cultural Revival (Ray O'Connor and Noreen Byrne)Chapter 8 A Revolutionary Generation (Roy Foster)Case study: The Irish Republican Brotherhood (Owen McGee)Chapter 9 Feminism and Nationalism: women and political activism (Margaret Ward)Section II CRISIS Chapter 10 The Home Rule crisis (Frank Callanan)Case study:  Curragh Mutiny (Frank Callanan)Chapter 11 'Ulster Will Fight' (Timothy Bowman)Case study: Ulster Solemn League and Covenant, 1912 (Martin Mansergh)Box: Ulster Women's Unionist Council (Diane Urquhart)Chapter 12 'They have rights who dare maintain them': the Irish Volunteers, 1913-15 (Gerry White)Box: Na Fianna Eireann (Marnie Hay)Case study: 'An Abundance of First Class Recruits': The GAA and the Irish Volunteers 1913-15 in County Kerry (Richard McElligott)Chapter 13 The Irish Volunteers in County Galway: evolution, growth and pre-revolutionary configuration, 1913-16 (Mark McCarthy and Shirley Wrynn)Chapter 14 Larkin, Connolly and the Cause of Labour (Emmet O'Connor)Case study: Lockout 1913 (Padraig Yeates)Box: The Irish Citizen Army 1913-16 (Ann Matthews)Box: The Labour Movement in Belfast, 1900-16 (John Gray)Section III WORLD WAR and the EASTER RISINGChapter 15 Ireland and the 'Greater War' (John Horne)Case study: Gallipoli (Myles Dungan)Box: Funeral of Jeremiah O'Donovan Rossa (Gabriel Doherty)Chapter 16 The Battle of the Somme and the Ulster Protestant Imagination (Phillip Orr)Chapter 17 Ireland's War and the Easter Rising in a European Context (Jerome aan de Weil)Case study: Rebellion, Objects, Empire and 1916 (Nicholas Allen)Chapter 18 The Easter Rising (Fearghal McGarry)Case study: Child Casualties 1916 (Joe Duffy) Box: The Irish Citizen Army in the Rising (Ann Matthews)Chapter 19 1916 Proclamation (John A. Murphy)Case study: Court Martial and Executions (Brian Barton)Box: The Rebel King Brothers of Liverpool (Padraig King)Chapter 20 Staging the Rising (Clair Wills)Case study: The Easter Rising in the French Press (Grace Neville)Chapter 21 Ernest Kavanagh (James Curry)Chapter 22 Britain's Irish Question (Ronan Fanning)Section IV THE RISING TIDE Chapter 23 A Political Revolution (Michael Laffan)Case study: Reorganiation of the Irish Volunteers, 1917 (John Borgonovo)Case study: Imprisonment, 1915-18 (William Murphy)Chapter 24 The Conscription Crisis and the General Election of 1918 (Pauric Travers)Case study:  'The day when Irish Labour found itself': the general strike against conscription, 23 April 1918 (Fiona Devoy-McAuliffe)Chapter 25 The First Dail (Mary Daly)Case study: Commission of Inquiry into Resources and Industries (Mary Daly)Case study: The Democratic Programme of the First Dail (Ruan O'Donnell)Section V WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (1)MILITARY DIMENSIONSChapter 26 The War of Independence (Joost Augusteijn)Case study: Brothers-In-Arms: The Tormeys (John Sheehan)Chapter 27 The British Army in Ireland (William Sheehan)Chapter 28 The Royal Irish Constabulary, Black and Tans and Auxiliaries (D.M. Leeson)Box: Reprisals (D.M. Leeson)Case study: Irish Newspapers (Ian Kenneally)Chapter 29 The Irish Republican Army (John Borgonovo)Chapter 30 Cumann na mBan in the War of Independence (Marie Coleman)Chapter 31 Ambushes in the War of Independence 1919-1921 (William Kautt)Chapter 32 Capture of Brigadier General Lucas (Aideen Carroll and Tom Toomey)Chapter 33 Michael Collins and the Intelligence War (Michael Foy)Box: Florence O'Donoghue (John Borgonovo)Box: Paddy O'Donoghue and Violet Gore's Wedding Photograph (John O'Connell)Case study: 'Spies and informers beware!' - IRA executions of alleged civilians spies during the War of Independence (Padraig Og O Ruairc)Chapter 34 Imprisonment and the War of Independence (William Murphy)Box: Hunger Strikes (Justin Stover)Chapter 35 The War of Independence and the Burning of Irish Country Houses, 1921 (Terence Dooley)Section VI. WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (2)POLITICAL, SOCIAL AND INTERNATIONAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 36 Politics in a Time of War (Michael Laffan) Case study:  Dail Courts: a case study of mid Cork 1920-22 (Niall Murray)Box: The Belfast Boycott (Robert Lynch)Chapter 37 Making the Case for Irish Independence (Arthur Mitchell)Case study:  Press Coverage from Abroad (Oliver O'Hanlon)Box: The Irish Bulletin (Ian Kenneally)Chapter 38 Losing a War it Never Fought: labour, socialism and the War of Independence (Donal O Drisceoil)Box: Land, Revolution and Counter-Revolution in the West of Ireland (Tony Varley)Chapter 39 The Catholic Church (Brian Heffernan)Chapter 40 The Friends of Irish Freedom (Michael Doorley)Case study: The Irish Revolution in Great Britain (Darragh Gannon)Chapter 41 The British perspective (Ronan Fanning)Section VII WAR OF INDEPENDENCE (3)REGIONAL PERSPECTIVESChapter 42 The Geography of the War of Independence (David Fitzpatrick)Chapter 43 Munster: a military overview (John O'Callaghan)Box: Creamery Attacks (Proinnsias Breathnach)Chapter 44 Cork (John Borgonovo)Box: An IRA Observation Post at Candroma, County Cork (Aidan Harte and Colm Chambers)Case study: Limerick (John O'Callaghan)Chapter 45 Leinster (Marie Coleman)Chapter 46 Dublin (Padraig Yeates)Case study: Longford (Marie Coleman)Chapter 47 Connacht (Conor MacNamara)Chapter 48 Sligo (Michael Farry)Case study: 'The terror' in Galway Town (Conor MacNamara)Chapter 49 Ulster (Robert Lynch)Chapter 50 Belfast (Robert Lynch)Case study: Tyrone (Fearghal McCluskey)Section VIII TREATY and CIVIL WAR Case study: The Anglo-Irish Treaty (Michael Kennedy)Chapter 51 The Politics of the Treaty Split and Civil War (Bill Kissane)Box:  The IRA Convention, April 1922 (John Borgonovo)Chapter 52 Civil War: the opening phase (Michael Hopkinson)Box: Free State Versus Republic: the opposing armed forces in the Irish Civil War (Gerry White)Chapter 53 Final Phase of the Civil War (Michael Hopkinson)Case study: Michael Collins and the Civil War (T. 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