Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g
Reihe: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
Buch, Englisch, 320 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 488 g
Reihe: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
ISBN: 978-0-19-925184-1
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Comprehensive study covering the full period of Empire from the sixteenth to the twentieth century
- Examines both Ireland as a British colony and the role of the Irish within the British Empire beyond Ireland
- Written by leading historians of Ireland
Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded in part by Irish experience. But the nature of Ireland's position in the Empire has always been a matter of contentious dispute. Was Ireland a sister kingdom and equal partner in a larger British state? Or was it, because of its proximity and strategic importance, the Empire's most subjugated colony? Contemporaries disagreed strongly on these questions, and historians continue to do so. Questions of this sort can only be answered historically: Ireland's relationship with Britain and the Empire developed and changed over time, as did the Empire itself.
This book offers the first comprehensive history of the subject from the early modern era through to the contemporary period. The contributors seek to specify the nature of Ireland's entanglement with empire over time: from the conquest and colonization of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through the consolidation of Ascendancy rule in the eighteenth, the Act of Union in the period 1801-1921, the emergence of an Irish Free State and Republic, and eventual withdrawal from the British Commonwealth in 1948. They also consider the participation of Irish people in the Empire overseas, as soldiers, administrators, merchants, migrants, and missionaries; the influence of Irish social, administrative, and constitutional precedents in other colonies; and the impact of Irish nationalism and independence on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish history in its wider imperial context which is also filled with insights on the origins, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.
Contents
- Nicholas Canny: Foreword
- 1 Kevin Kenny: Ireland and the British Empire: An Introduction
- 2 Jane H. Ohlmeyer: A Laboratory for Empire?: Early Modern Ireland and English Imperialism
- 3 Thomas Bartlett: Ireland, Empire, and Union 1690-1801
- 4 Kevin Kenny: The Irish in the Empire
- 5 Alvin Jackson: Ireland, the Union, and the Empire 1800-1960
- 6 Vera Kreilkamp: Fiction and Empire: The Irish Novel
- 7 Deirdre McMahon: Ireland, the Empire, and the Commonwealth
- 8 Stephen Howe: Historiography
- 9 Joe Cleary: Postcolonial Ireland
- Index
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- Examines both Ireland as a British colony and the role of the Irish within the British Empire beyond Ireland
- Written by leading historians of Ireland
Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded in part by Irish experience. But the nature of Ireland's position in the Empire has always been a matter of contentious dispute. Was Ireland a sister kingdom and equal partner in a larger British state? Or was it, because of its proximity and strategic importance, the Empire's most subjugated colony? Contemporaries disagreed strongly on these questions, and historians continue to do so. Questions of this sort can only be answered historically: Ireland's relationship with Britain and the Empire developed and changed over time, as did the Empire itself.
This book offers the first comprehensive history of the subject from the early modern era through to the contemporary period. The contributors seek to specify the nature of Ireland's entanglement with empire over time: from the conquest and colonization of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, through the consolidation of Ascendancy rule in the eighteenth, the Act of Union in the period 1801-1921, the emergence of an Irish Free State and Republic, and eventual withdrawal from the British Commonwealth in 1948. They also consider the participation of Irish people in the Empire overseas, as soldiers, administrators, merchants, migrants, and missionaries; the influence of Irish social, administrative, and constitutional precedents in other colonies; and the impact of Irish nationalism and independence on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish history in its wider imperial context which is also filled with insights on the origins, expansion, and decline of the British Empire.
Contents
- Nicholas Canny: Foreword
- 1 Kevin Kenny: Ireland and the British Empire: An Introduction
- 2 Jane H. Ohlmeyer: A Laboratory for Empire?: Early Modern Ireland and English Imperialism
- 3 Thomas Bartlett: Ireland, Empire, and Union 1690-1801
- 4 Kevin Kenny: The Irish in the Empire
- 5 Alvin Jackson: Ireland, the Union, and the Empire 1800-1960
- 6 Vera Kreilkamp: Fiction and Empire: The Irish Novel
- 7 Deirdre McMahon: Ireland, the Empire, and the Commonwealth
- 8 Stephen Howe: Historiography
- 9 Joe Cleary: Postcolonial Ireland
- Index
Zielgruppe
Students and scholars of British imperial history, historians of Ireland and readers interested in Irish history.
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