I have ask on the book corner if anyone have a good book to recommend on the celt but CelticRose suggest me to came here and said I will have more chance.So is there anyone who have a good suggestion for me?I prefer a book but if you have a web site it's ok too.
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I tend to think of anything by Peter Beresford Ellis as good starting points. Two that I like are "The Celts: a Hisory," and "A Brief history of The Druids." Elllis has been criticized by some for being too favorable to the Celts, and for too much of a bias against the Romans. Personally, I tend to think his analysis tends to be well-reasoned.
Try "The Historical Atlas of The Celtic World". It clears up a lot of history and offers a very easy to understand explanation for many trends and events over the last 7000 years of Celt history.
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-Alexander Maclean Sinclair of Goshen (protector of Gaelic Culture)
Well, not strictly related to the Celts, at least not all of it, but I came to consider this book essential in understanding the construction of "Atlantic Europe" which, after all, is the geographical environment housing the Celts. The book is:
* Facing the Ocean: The Atlantic and Its Peoples, 8000 BC to AD 1500'', by Barry Cunliffe, OUP, 2001.
Cunliffe has plenty of books dedicated to the Celts alone, but this one I've just mentioned puts everything into context (IMHO)
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