British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland [Hardcover]

This book offers a fundamental perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.This book offers a fundamentally new perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading historians challenge traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and they reveals the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. As they attempted to do well for themselves in Ireland, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they sought to exploit. They wanted to 'make good'.This book offers a fundamentally new perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading historians challenge traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and they reveals the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. As they attempted to do well for themselves in Ireland, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they sought to exploit. They wanted to 'make good'.In this book leading historians challenge traditional views about the British conquest and colonization of Ireland during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. They reveal the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. Notably, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they originally sought to exploit.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 lÔ