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Donald Harman Akenson

Donald Harman Akenson, Professor of History at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario, is one of the -world's leading authorities on Irish history. He received his bachelor's degree from Yale and his Ph.D from Harvard. The author of twenty books, including five novels, he is a Fellow of the Royal Society (Canada) and of the Royal Historical Society (U.K.). He has held both a Guggenheim Fellowship and a writing fellowship at Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio, Como. In 1993 he received the prestigious Grawmeyer Award for Ideas Improving World Order, for his book God's People: Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel and Ulster (1992). In 1996 he was named Molson Prize Laureate; this is Canada's highest cultural award.

Books by Donald Harman Akenson

The Americanization of the Apocalypse

Creating America's Own Bible

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Exporting the Rapture

John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North American Evangelicalism

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Between Dispersion and Belonging

Global Approaches to Diaspora in Practice

edited by Amitava Chowdhury & Donald Harman Akenson

Discovering the End of Time

Irish Evangelicals in the Age of Daniel O'Connell

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Ireland, Sweden, and the Great European Migration, 1815-1914

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Some Family

The Mormons and How Humanity Keeps Track of Itself

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Saint Saul

A Skeleton Key to the Historical Jesus

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Irish in Ontario, Second Edition

A Study in Rural History

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

The Irish in Ontario

A Study in Rural History, Second Edition

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Surpassing Wonder

The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

If the Irish Ran the World

Montserrat, 1630-1730

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Conor, Volume II

A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien: Volume II, Anthology

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Conor, Volume I

A Biography of Conor Cruise O'Brien: Volume I, Narrative

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

The Irish Diaspora

A Primer

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

God's Peoples

Covenant and Land in South Africa, Israel, and Ulster

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

Small Differences

Irish Catholics and Irish Protestants, 1815-1922: An International Perspective

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

At Face Value

The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

At Face Value

The Life and Times of Eliza McCormack/John White

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson

The Irish in Ontario

A Study in Rural History

by (author) Donald Harman Akenson