Empire and enterprise : money, power and the Adventurers for Irish Land during the British Civil Wars / David Brown.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brown, David, 1960 March 5- author.

Series:

Studies in early modern Irish history.

Studies in early modern Irish history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Committee of Adventurers in London for Lands in Ireland.

Land tenure--Ireland--17th century.

Land tenure.

Land settlement--Ireland--History--17th century.

Land settlement.

Ireland--History--1625-1649.

Ireland.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 300 pages) : digital file(s).

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2020.

System Details:

data file

Summary:

This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.

Contents:

Atlantic oligarchy : Ireland in the early English Atlantic world

The Three Kingdoms

The Adventure for Irish land

Grocers' Hall

Commonwealth

Republic

Restoration.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781526132017

152613201X

9781526152107

152615210X

9781526132000

1526132001

OCLC:

1143847470