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Ireland: 1641
eBook - Contexts and reactions, Studies in Early Modern Irish History
ISBN/EAN: 9781784992040
Umbreit-Nr.: 988862
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 304 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 16.05.2016
Auflage: 1/2016
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p>The 1641 rebellion is one of the seminal events in early modern Irish and British history. Its divisive legacy, based primarily on the sharply contested allegation that the rebellion began with a general massacre of Protestant settlers, is still evident in Ireland today. Indeed, the 1641 massacres, like the battles at the Boyne (1690) and Somme (1916), played a key role in creating and sustaining a collective Protestant/ British identity in Ulster, in much the same way that the subsequent Cromwellian conquest in the 1650s helped forge a new Irish Catholic national identity.<br><br>Following a successful hardback edition, Ó Siochrú and OIhlmeyer's popular title is now available in paperback. The original and wide-ranging themes chosen by leading international scholars for this volume will ensure that this edited collection becomes required reading for all those interested in the history of early modern Europe. It will also appeal to those engaged in early colonial studies in the Atlantic world and beyond, as the volume adopts a genuinely comparative approach throughout, examining developments in a broad global context.</p>
- Kurztext
- This volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic contexts.
- Autorenportrait
- Jane Ohlmeyer is Erasmus Smiths Professor of Modern History at Trinity College, Dublin