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Record Nr.

UNINA9910254771803321

Autore

Farrell Gerard

Titolo

The 'Mere Irish' and the Colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641 [[electronic resource] /] / by Gerard Farrell

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-59363-3

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XX, 331 p. 27 illus., 11 illus. in color.)

Collana

Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies, , 2635-1633

Disciplina

325.3

Soggetti

Imperialism

Great Britain—History

United States—History

Civilization—History

Imperialism and Colonialism

History of Britain and Ireland

US History

Cultural History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1 Introduction -- 2 Ulster as a colony in the Atlantic world -- 3 Broken by a war, capable of good government -- 4 Cultural superstructure -- 5 Economic base -- 6 The ‘Deserving Irish’ -- 7 Conclusion.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the native Irish experience of conquest and colonisation in Ulster in the first decades of the seventeenth century. Central to this argument is that the Ulster plantation bears more comparisons to European expansion throughout the Atlantic than (as some historians have argued) the early-modern state’s consolidation of control over its peripheral territories. Farrell also demonstrates that plantation Ulster did not see any significant attempt to transform the Irish culturally or economically in these years, notwithstanding the rhetoric of a ‘civilising mission’. Challenging recent scholarship on the integrative aspects of plantation society, he argues that this emphasis obscures the antagonism which characterised relations between native and newcomer until the eve of the 1641 rising. This book is of interest



not only to students of early-modern Ireland but is also a valuable contribution to the burgeoning field of Atlantic history and indeed colonial studies in general.