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

Exporting the Rapture

Between Dispersion and Belonging

Discovering the End of Time

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

Some Family

Saint Saul

Irish in Ontario, Second Edition

Surpassing Wonder

If the Irish Ran the World

Conor, Volume II

Conor, Volume I

The Irish Diaspora

God's Peoples

Small Differences

At Face Value

At Face Value

The Irish in Ontario