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About the Author Hugh F. Kearney was Amundson Professor of History at the University of Pittsburgh from  to . Born in Liverpool and educated at the University of Cambridge, he has taught at universities in Dublin and Sussex and at Edinburgh, where he was Richard Pares Professor of History from  to . He is the author of Strafford in Ireland, –, Scholars and Gentlemen: Universities and Society, –, Science and Change, –, and The British Isles: A History of Four Nations. 309 ...

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