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Ireland and the British Empire (Paperback, New Ed)
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Ireland and the British Empire (Paperback, New Ed)
Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
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Modern Irish history was determined by the rise, expansion, and
decline of the British Empire. British imperial history, from the
age of Atlantic expansion to the age of decolonization, was moulded
in part by Irish experience. But the nature of Ireland's position
in the Empire has always been a matter of contentious dispute. Was
Ireland a sister kingdom and equal partner in a larger British
state? Or was it, because of its proximity and strategic
importance, the Empire's most subjugated colony? Contemporaries
disagreed strongly on these questions, and historians continue to
do so. Questions of this sort can only be answered historically:
Ireland's relationship with Britain and the Empire developed and
changed over time, as did the Empire itself. This book offers the
first comprehensive history of the subject from the early modern
era through to the contemporary period. The contributors seek to
specify the nature of Ireland's entanglement with empire over time:
from the conquest and colonization of the sixteenth and seventeenth
centuries, through the consolidation of Ascendancy rule in the
eighteenth, the Act of Union in the period 1801-1921, the emergence
of an Irish Free State and Republic, and eventual withdrawal from
the British Commonwealth in 1948. They also consider the
participation of Irish people in the Empire overseas, as soldiers,
administrators, merchants, migrants, and missionaries; the
influence of Irish social, administrative, and constitutional
precedents in other colonies; and the impact of Irish nationalism
and independence on the Empire at large. The result is a new
interpretation of Irish history in its wider imperial context which
is also filled with insights on the origins, expansion, and decline
of the British Empire.
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