Making Ireland British, 1580-1650

Name: Making Ireland British, 1580-1650
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ISBN: 9780199259052

ISBN-10: 0199259054

ISBN-13: 9780199259052

Edition: 2003

Authors: Nicholas Canny

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This is the first 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…

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List price: $110.00
Copyright year: 2003
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 3/13/2003
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 650
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 1.32" tall
Weight: 2.046
Language: English




Spenser Sets The Agenda



The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland



The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice



Plantation in Ireland 1603-22: Theory and Practice



The Politics of Plantation, 1622-1641



The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland



Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response



The Irish Insurrection of 1641