Making Ireland British, 1580-1650

Erscheinungsjahr 2003
ISBN: 978-0-19-925905-2
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 650 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 971 g

This is a 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.

This is a 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.

1. Spenser Sets the Agenda; 2. The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland; 3. The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice; 4. Plantation in Ireland 1603-1622: Theory and Practice; 5. The Politics of Plantation 1622-1641; 6. The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland; 7. Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response; 8. The Irish Insurrection of 1641

Autoren/Hrsg.

Canny, Nicholas

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Internationale Beziehungen Kolonialismus, Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kolonialgeschichte, Geschichte des Imperialismus
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Postkoloniale Geschichte, Nationale Befreiung und Unabhängigkeit
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

(Professor of History, National University of Ireland, Galway)