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Titolo |
Ireland and the British Empire / / Kevin Kenny, editor |
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Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2004 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-75231-9 |
0-19-153078-6 |
1-4294-2082-0 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (319 p.) |
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Collana |
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The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series |
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Altri autori (Persone) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Irish - Great Britain - Colonies - History |
Ireland Foreign relations |
Ireland Relations Great Britain |
Great Britain Relations Ireland |
Great Britain Colonies History |
Ireland History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 288) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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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 |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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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 |
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