Category Archives: Hoppen, K. Theodore

The Troubles of Northern Ireland

The historical sense among the people of Northern Ireland is strong, but an approach to history does not yield political harmony. According to James Donnelly and Theo Hoppen, issues such as unemployment, immigration, and free trade, in addition to basic religious disparities, … Continue reading

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Evolution and the Victorians

In scientific and cultural terms, Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution stimulated intense reaction and controversy among his Victorian English contemporaries. What did evolution mean to the nineteenth-century British society in which it first found currency? What were the reactions when … Continue reading

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