The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society, associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.
| ISBN: | 9781009013741 |
| Publication date: | 23rd May 2024 |
| Author: | James Stafford |
| Publisher: | Cambridge University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 308 pages |
| Series: | Ideas in Context |
| Genres: |
European history History and Archaeology Colonialism and imperialism |
The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society, associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.
The Case of Ireland features in the following genres: European history, History and Archaeology, Colonialism and imperialism
The Case of Ireland is available in Paperback, Hardback
The Case of Ireland was written by James Stafford and published by Cambridge University Press
The Case of Ireland has 308 pages
Yes it is part of Ideas in Context series
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