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Contested Island - Ireland 1460-1630 (Paperback)
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Contested Island - Ireland 1460-1630 (Paperback)
Series: Oxford History of Early Modern Europe
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Between the 1460s and the 1630s Ireland was transformed from a
medieval into a modern society. A poor society on the periphery of
Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords--Irish and
English--it later became a centralised political unit with a single
government and code of laws, and a still primitive, but rapidly
developing, market economy. These changes, however, had been
achieved by brutal wars of conquest, while large scale colonisation
projects had created lasting tensions between old inhabitants and
recent settlers.
At the same time the great religious divide of the Reformation had
introduced a further source of conflict to Ireland, dividing the
population into two hostile camps, while at the same time giving it
a new and dangerous role in the conflict between England and its
continental enemies. Against this confused and constantly changing
background, individuals and groups had repeatedly to adapt their
customs and behaviour, their political allegiances and aspirations,
and their sense of who they were. A long and complex story, with
many false starts and numerous dead ends, it is the story of the
people who became the modern Irish.
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