The 'mere Irish' and the colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641 /

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Author / Creator:Farrell, Gerard, author.
Imprint:Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
Description:1 online resource
Language:English
Series:Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13562584
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ISBN:9783319593630
3319593633
3319593625
9783319593623
9783319593623
3319593625
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Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-321) and index.
Summary: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.--
Other form:Print version: Farrell, Gerard. Mere Irish' and the colonisation of Ulster, 1570-1641. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017 9783319593623 3319593625
Standard no.:9783319593623
10.1007/978-3-319-59363-0