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Klappentext This book offers a fundamental perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Zusammenfassung This book offers a fundamental perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. It challenges traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and it reveals the contradictions! disappointments and failures! which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. New perspectives on the English in early modern Ireland Ciaran Brady and Jane Ohlmeyer; 2. The attainder of Shane O'Neill, Sir Henry Sidney and the problems of Tudor state-building in Ireland Ciaran Brady; 3. Dynamics of regional dvelopment: processes of assimilation and division in the marchland of South-East Ulster in late medieval and early modern Ireland Harold O'Sullivan; 4. The 'common good' and the university in an age of confessional conflict Helga Robinson-Hammerstein; 5. The construction of argument: Henry Fitzsimon, John Rider and religious controversy in Dublin, 1599-1614 Brian Jackson; 6. The bible and the bawn: an Ulster planter inventorised R. J. Hunter; 7. 'That bugbear Armenianism': Archbishop Laud and Trinity College, Dublin Alan Ford; 8. The Irish peers, political power and parliament, 1640-1 Jane Ohlmeyer; 9. The Irish elections of 1640-1 Brid McGrath; 10. Catholic confederates and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and England, 1641-9 Micheal O. Siochru; 11. Protestant churchmen and the confederate wars Robert Armstrong; 12. The crisis of the Spanish and the Stuart monarchies in the mid-seventeenth century: local problems or global problems? Geoffrey Parker; 13. Settlement, transplantation and expulsion: a comparative study of the placement of peoples Sarah Barber; 14. Interests in Ireland: the 'fanatic zeal and the irregular ambition' of Richard Lawrence Toby Barnard; 15. Temple's fate: reading the Irish Rebellion in late seventeenth-century Ireland Raymond Gillespie; 16. Conquest versus consent as the basis of the English title to Ireland in William Molyneaux's Case of Ireland ... Stated (1698) Patrick Kelly....
