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Item Details
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OLD WORLD COLONY
CORK AND SOUTH MUNSTER, 1630-1830 |
| By: |
Dr. David Dickson |
| Format: |
Paperback |
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£27.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1859184030 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781859184035 |
| Publisher: |
CORK UNIVERSITY PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
8 November, 2005 |
| Pages: |
760 |
| Description: |
Traces how rural society and farming evolved, and surveys the world of landowners and of the marginalized, of wealthy merchants and the teeming masses of the towns. This study sets the more familiar landmarks of the nineteenth century - agrarian conflict, structural poverty, and the collapse of food supply - in a complex historical framework. |
| Synopsis: |
This ground-breaking study traces the fortunes of one of Ireland's wealthiest regions between 1630 and 1830. South Munster's strengths were its agricultural resources and its prime Atlantic location, and the rise of the city of Cork from insignificance to international importance was critical in the exploitation of this wealth as well as being symbolic of a new commercial order. Cork's wholesale hinterland embraced much of Kerry, Waterford and Co. Cork itself, and the study examines the whole of the region. "Old world colony" traces how rural society and farming evolved, and surveys the world of landowners and of the marginalized, of wealthy merchants and the teeming masses of the towns. It seeks to integrate what is usually set apart - social, economic and political history - in a fresh and unfamiliar panorama of material and public life across the heartlands of 'the Hidden Ireland' from the era of civil war and expropriation in the seventeenth century to the era of Catholic resurgence in the 1820s. Colonization and commerce transformed the region, but change came at a price.Many of the problems of pre-Famine Ireland - gross income inequality and land scarcity - were precociously evident in South Munster. This study therefore sets the more familiar landmarks of the nineteenth century - agrarian conflict, structural poverty, and the collapse of food supply - in a new and more complex historical framework. |
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Illustrations, maps, ports. |
| Publication: |
Ireland |
| Imprint: |
Cork University Press |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
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