Donald Akenson

Donald Harman Akenson (born May 22, 1941 in Minneapolis , Minnesota ) is an American historian and writer.

Life

Akenson studied at the Yale University History and graduated there with the Bachelor of Arts from to at the Harvard University to be promoted. Akenson is Professor of History at Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario , Beamish Research Professor at the Department of Irish Studies at the University of Liverpool, and Senior Editor at McGill-Queen's University Press.

To date, he has written eighteen non-fictional scientific monographs , including around a dozen on the history of Ireland , and five novels .

Akenson won the Grawemeyer Award for God's Peoples in 1992 and the Trillium Book Award for Conor: The Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien in 1994 . His book on the Bible , Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds (1998), was shortlisted for the 1999 Canadian Governor General's Award for Nonfiction.

Donald Akenson is also a member of the Royal Society of Canada and the Royal Historical Society of the United Kingdom .

plant

• The Irish Education Experiment . Routledge & Kegan Paul, London 1970.
• Education and enmity: the control of schooling in Northern Ireland, 1920-1950 . David & Charles, Newton Abbot (England) & New York (1973).
• A mirror to Kathleen's face . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1975.
• Half the World from Home: Perspectives on the Irish in New Zealand, 1860-1950 . Wellington, Victoria University Press 1990.
• Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1991.
• God's Peoples: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1992.
• The Irish Diaspora . Institute of Irish Studies, The Queen's University, Belfast 1993.
• Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien. Volume I: Narratives . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1994
• Conor: A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien. Volume II: Anthology . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1994.
• If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730. McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1997.
• Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 1998.
• Saint Saul: A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 2002.
• Some Family: The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 2007.
• Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914 . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 2011.
• Discovering the End of Time: Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O'Connell . McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal 2016.
• Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism . Oxford University Press, New York 2018.

Web links

• Donald Akenson on the website of Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
• International Who's Who, 2004 Edition