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Ulster Since 1600 - Politics, Economy, and Society (Hardcover)
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Ulster Since 1600 - Politics, Economy, and Society (Hardcover)
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Ulster Since 1600 surveys the history of the province from
plantation to partition, and onwards from the formation of the
Northern Ireland state to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. It
synthesises existing historical knowledge and also brings new
insights to bear on the political, social, and economic evolution
of the province and its peoples. The word 'Ulster' conjures up
images of communal conflict, sectarianism, and peace processes of
indefinite duration but, as this volume shows, there is much more
to the history of Ulster and its peoples. From the Plantation of
Ulster in the early seventeenth century, the province has been home
to three major ethnic and religious groups. It was this radically
reconstituted society that produced a precociously early emigration
to North America, that celebrated the outbreak of the French
Revolution, and that in the Victorian era hosted Ireland's first
industrial city. Its rural poor suffered destruction and death
during the Great Famine of the 1840s, along with their counterparts
in the south of Ireland. Its urban working classes had much in
common with the industrial classes of England and Scotland, in
terms of religiosity, popular entertainment, labour movements,
gender, and family relationships. This multi-authored volume is a
major contribution to the history of Ireland and to Ireland's
contested place in the British and the wider world.
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