Ireland and the British Empire / Kevin Kenny, editor.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kenny, Kevin, 1960-

Series:

Oxford history of the British Empire companion series.

The Oxford history of the British Empire companion series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Irish--Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Irish.

Ireland--Foreign relations.

Ireland.

Ireland--Relations--Great Britain.

Great Britain--Relations--Ireland.

Great Britain.

Great Britain--Colonies--History.

Ireland--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2004.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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

Contents:

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

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 288) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-280-75231-9

0-19-153078-6

1-4294-2082-0

OCLC:

476257250