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Record Nr.

UNINA9910817224003321

Titolo

Ireland and the British Empire / / Kevin Kenny, editor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004

ISBN

1-280-75231-9

0-19-153078-6

1-4294-2082-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (319 p.)

Collana

The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series

Altri autori (Persone)

KennyKevin <1960->

Disciplina

941.5

Soggetti

Irish - Great Britain - Colonies - History

Ireland Foreign relations

Ireland Relations Great Britain

Great Britain Relations Ireland

Great Britain Colonies History

Ireland History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Abbreviations and Location of Manuscript Sources; List of Contributors; 1. Ireland and the British Empire: An Introduction; 2. A Laboratory for Empire?: Early Modern Ireland and English Imperialism; 3. Ireland, Empire, and Union, 1690-1801; 4. The Irish in the Empire; 5. Ireland, the Union, and the Empire, 1800-1960; 6. Fiction and Empire: The Irish Novel; 7. Ireland, the Empire, and the Commonwealth; 8. Historiography; 9. Postcolonial Ireland; Index

Sommario/riassunto

This is the first comprehensive history of Ireland and the British Empire. It examines the different phases of Ireland's colonial status from the seventeenth century until the present, along with the impact of Irish people, politics, and nationalism on the Empire at large. The result is a new interpretation of Irish history and its place in the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. - ;Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and decline of the British Empire. And British imperial history, from the age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moul