Contested Island Ireland 1460-1630

Name: Contested Island Ireland 1460-1630
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ISBN: 9780199563715

ISBN-10: 0199563713

ISBN-13: 9780199563715

Edition: 2009

Authors: S. J. Connolly

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Between the 1460s and the 1630s Ireland was transformed from a medieval into a modern society. A poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords- Irish and English- it later became a centralized political unit with a single government and code of laws, and a still primitive, but rapidly developing, market economy. These changes, however, had been achieved by brutal wars of conquest, while large scale colonization projects had created lastingtensions between old inhabitants and recent settlers. At the same time the great religious divide of the Reformation had introduced a further source of conflict to Ireland, dividing the population into two…

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List price: $45.49
Copyright year: 2009
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 7/30/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 440
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.94" tall
Weight: 1.430
Language: English




Introduction: The Battle of Knockdoe 1504



Late Medieval Ireland



From Lordship to Kingdom



Expansion and Resistance



The Wars of Ireland



Wild Fruit from Savage Soil



The Third Kingdom



Religion and Nation



Epilogue: New English, New Irish?