British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 052115460X ISBN 13: 9780521154604

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In this book leading historians challenge traditional views about the British conquest and colonization of Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They reveal the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. Notably, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they originally sought to exploit.

About this title

Book Description:

This book offers a fundamentally new perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading historians challenge traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and they reveals the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. As they attempted to do well for themselves in Ireland, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they sought to exploit. They wanted to 'make good'.

About the Author:

Ciaran Brady is Lecturer in History at Trinity College, Dublin. His previous publications include The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland, 1536-1588 (1995). Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smith Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin. Her previous publications include Civil War and Restoration in the Three Stuart Kingdoms (1993), Ireland from Independence to Occupation, 1641-1660 (1995), Kingdom or Colony?: Political Thought in Seventeenth-Century Ireland (2000).

About this edition

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 052115460X
• ISBN 13: 9780521154604
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 392
• Editor: Brady Ciaran, Ohlmeyer Jane