Donald Harman Akenson
Author of Surpassing Wonder: The Invention of the Bible and the Talmuds
About the Author
Donald Harman Akenson is currently Douglas Professor of Canadian and Colonial History at Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario. He was also Beamish Research Professor of Migration Studies at the University of Liverpool from 1997 to 2004 and Honorary Professor at the Research Institute of Irish and show more Scottish Studies at the University of Aberdeen. Akenson has received six honorary doctorates for his scholarly work. show less
Series
Works by Donald Harman Akenson
Small Differences: Irish Catholics and Protestants, 1815-1922 - An International Perspective (1988) 18 copies
Exporting the Rapture: John Nelson Darby and the Victorian Conquest of North-American Evangelicalism (2018) 14 copies
Ireland, Sweden and the Great European Migration: 1815-1914. by Donald Harman Akenson (2011) 11 copies
Associated Works
The calling of the nations : exegesis, ethnography, and empire in a biblical-historic present (2011) — Contributor — 4 copies
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Common Knowledge
- Birthdate
- 1941-05-22
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- Canada
- Birthplace
- Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Places of residence
- Kingston, Ontario, Canada
- Education
- Harvard University (PhD|1967)
Yale College (AB|1962) - Occupations
- historian
university professor - Organizations
- University of Liverpool
McGill-Queen's University Press
Queen's University - Awards and honors
- Fellow, Royal Historical Society
Fellow, Royal Society of Canada
Molson Prize (1995)
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Statistics
- Works
- 44
- Also by
- 1
- Members
- 695
- Popularity
- #36,412
- Rating
- 3.3
- Reviews
- 8
- ISBNs
- 102