Making the Grand Figure

Making the Grand Figure
Author: Toby Christopher Barnard
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 534
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300103090

"Through such everyday articles as linen shirts, wigs, silver teaspoons, pottery plates and engravings, Barnard evokes a striking variety of lives and attitudes. Possessions, he shows, even horses and dogs, highlighted and widened divisions, not only between rich and poor, women and men, but also between Irish Catholics and the Protestant settlers. Displaying fresh evidence and unexpected perspectives, the book throws new light on Ireland during a formative period. Its discoveries, set within the context of the 'consumer revolution' gripping Europe and North America, allow Ireland for the first time to be integrated into discussions of the pleasures and pains of consumerism."--BOOK JACKET.

The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland

The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland
Author: John Patrick Montaño
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 441
Release: 2011-08-11
Genre: History
ISBN: 1107375894

This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montaño traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played in Tudor strategies for settling, civilising and colonising Ireland. The book ranges from the role of cartography, surveying and material culture - houses, fences, fields, roads and bridges - in manifesting the new order to the place of diet, leisure, language and hairstyles in establishing cultural differences as a site of conflict between the Irish and the imperialising state and as a justification for the civilising process. It shows that the ideologies and strategies of colonisation which would later be applied in the New World were already apparent in the practices, material culture and hardening attitude towards barbarous customs of the Tudor regime.

Early Modern Ireland

Early Modern Ireland
Author: Sarah Covington
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 638
Release: 2018-12-21
Genre: History
ISBN: 1351242997

Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives offers fresh approaches and case studies that push the field of early modern Ireland, and of British and European history more generally, into unexplored directions. The centuries between 1500 and 1700 were pivotal in Ireland’s history, yet so much about this period has remained neglected until relatively recently, and a great deal has yet to be explored. Containing seventeen original and individually commissioned essays by an international and interdisciplinary group of leading and emerging scholars, this book covers a wide range of topics, including social, cultural, and political history as well as folklore, medicine, archaeology, and digital humanities, all of which are enhanced by a selection of maps, graphs, tables, and images. Urging a reevaluation of the terms and assumptions which have been used to describe Ireland’s past, and a consideration of the new directions in which the study of early modern Ireland could be taken, Early Modern Ireland: New Sources, Methods, and Perspectives is a groundbreaking collection for students and scholars studying early modern Irish history.

The Fine Arts

The Fine Arts
Author: Karl W. Hiersemann (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 776
Release: 1893
Genre: Booksellers' catalogs
ISBN:

A New Anatomy of Ireland

A New Anatomy of Ireland
Author: Toby Christopher Barnard
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2004-01-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780300101140

What was life like for Irish Protestants between the mid-17th and the late-18th centuries? Toby Barnard scrutinizes social attitudes and structures in every segment of Protestant society during this formative period.

Anatomy of a Siege

Anatomy of a Siege
Author: Kenneth Wiggins
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Total Pages: 360
Release: 2001
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780851158273

A rare, well-preserved example of the specialised military mining techniques employed in siege warfare.