This concise 3,000-year history of the Celts is packed with facts never before assembled together in a single volume. Much of this information cannot be found even in previous books written about the Celts. While of obvious interest to the 40 million Amer
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"The influence of the Celts is far more widespread than its fragmented survival in the outer fringes of western Europe indicates; this once important culture is still a vital component of European civilisation and heritage, from east to ...
The story of North European cultural ancestors.
Who are the Celts, and what does it mean to be Celtic? In this book, Caoimhín De Barra focuses on nationalists in Ireland and Wales between 1860 and 1925, a time period when people in these countries came to identify themselves as Celts.
He investigates the texts of the classical writers and contrasts their view of the Celts with current archaeological findings.
This book shows, in contrast, that the Celts, as they have been known and understood over two thousand years, are simply the 'other' of the dominant cultural and political traditions of Europe.
"The History of the Celtic People is a facsimile reprint of Henri Hubert's two volumes, The Rise of the Celts and the Greatness and decline of the Celts, which were first published in English in 1934"--T. p. verso./ Includes bibilographical ...
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A beautifully illustrated study of Celtic arts -- style, development and revival - and the relationship between art objects and identity, covering 2500 years of history.
It is the story of a multicultural civilization, linked by a common language. It is the story of how ideas travelled in prehistory, how technology and art spread across the continent.