A History of Settlement in Ireland

Erscheinungsjahr 1999
ISBN: 978-0-415-18208-9
Verlag: Taylor & Francis

Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 242 mm, Gewicht: 544 g

A History of Settlement in Ireland provides a stimulating and thought-provoking overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the issues of settlement change and distribution within the contexts of:

* environment
* demography
* culture.
The collection goes further by setting the agenda for future research in this rapidly expanding area of academic interest.
This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the archaeology, history and social geography of Ireland.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barry, Terry

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein Demographie, Demoskopie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Rechtswissenschaften Internationales Recht und Europarecht Internationales Recht Internationales Zivilprozess- und Schiedsverfahrensrecht

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 Reading a landscape manuscript: a review of progress in prehistoric settlement studies in Ireland 2 Settlement in early Ireland: a review 3 Early Christian Ireland: settlement and environment 4 Rural settlement in medieval Ireland 5 Urbanisation in Ireland during the High Middle Ages c. 1100 to c. 1350 6 Plantation Ireland: a review of settlement history 7 Ireland a colony: settlement implications of the revolution in military-administrative, urban and ecclesiastical structures, c. 1550 to c. 1730 8 Settlement and society in eighteenth-century Ireland 9 Trends in nineteenth- and twentieth-century settlement 10 Perspectives on Irish settlement studies

Über Autor(innen)

Terry Barry is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medieval History in Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland (1994), published by Routledge.