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MAKING IRELAND BRITISH, 1580-1650
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| By: |
Nicholas Canny |
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Hardback |
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£155.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0198200919 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780198200918 |
| Publisher: |
OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 May, 2001 |
| Pages: |
650 |
| Description: |
This pioneering study is the first to examine all the English settlements attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. The author looks at the arguments in favour of a "plantation" policy and Irish responses to it in practice. He places what happened in Ireland in the context of events in England, Scotland, Continental Europe, and England's Atlantic colonies. |
| Synopsis: |
This is the first comprehensive study of all the plantations that were attempted in Ireland during the years 1580-1650. It examines the arguments advanced by successive political figures for a plantation policy, and the responses which this policy elicited from different segments of the population in Ireland. The book opens with an analysis of the complete works of Edmund Spenser who was the most articulate ideologue for plantation. The author argues that all subsequent advocates of plantation, ranging from King James VI and I, to Strafford, to Oliver Cromwell, were guided by Spenser's opinions, and that discrepancies between plantation in theory and practice were measured against this yardstick. The book culminates with a close analysis of the 1641 insurrection throughout Ireland, which, it is argued, steeled Cromwell to engage in one last effort to make Ireland British. |
| Illustrations: |
11 maps |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Oxford University Press |
| Prizes: |
Winner of Awarded the Irish Historical Research Prize for 2003. |
| Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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