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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455800703321

Autore

Kinzer Bruce L. <1948->

Titolo

England's disgrace? : J. S. Mill and the Irish question / / Bruce L. Kinzer

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2001

©2001

ISBN

1-282-03389-1

9786612033896

1-4426-7448-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (303 p.)

Disciplina

941.5081

Soggetti

Irish question

Electronic books.

Ireland Politics and government 19th century

Ireland Foreign public opinion, British History 19th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Mill and Ireland in the Age of O'Connell -- II. The Famine -- III. Ireland and the Principles of Political Economy, 1848-1865 -- IV. The Irish University Question -- V. The Fenian Challenge and Irish Land -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Bruce L. Kinzer provides the first comprehensive investigation of J.S. Mill's multifaceted engagement with the Irish question. Mill, the pre-eminent thinker of his generation, sought to come to terms with the fundamental issues inherent in British-Irish politics. The Irish famine, the question of land reform, the controversy over higher education, and the various dimensions of the Fenian challenge, hallmark the landscape of Mill's more than forty years of writing on the Irish question.Kinzer's discussion of these episodes pays close attention to the ebb and flow of the issues as they touched upon the English political consciousness. Many of the factors shaping Mill's handling of the Irish question are reflective of a changing English political environment, one in which he sought to create for himself an influential place as radical critic and



purposeful agent.This study argues that Mill's perspective on the Irish question, his trenchant assaults on English parochialism notwithstanding, had a decidedly Anglocentric tilt. The condition of Ireland mattered to him mainly for what it said about the condition of England.