Bücher der Reihe The Cambridge History of Ireland

Provides new and original interpretations of a crucial phase in the history of Ireland that, while focused firmly on the island and its traditions, transcends and moves beyond the nationalist narrative of the twentieth century to provide a history of late early modern Ireland for the twenty-first century.

The thousand years explored in this book witnessed developments in the history of Ireland that resonate to this day. Interspersing narrative with detailed analysis of key themes, the first volume in the Cambridge History of Ireland presents the latest thinking on key aspects of the medieval Irish experience.

Offers fresh perspectives on the political, military, religious, social, cultural, intellectual, economic, and environmental history of early modern Ireland, within their global and comparative contexts, to explain in an accessible manner how and why people acted as they did in the transformative and tumultuous years between 1550 and 1730.

Copiously illustrated, this volume situates the Irish story, or stories - for much of these decades two Irelands are in play - in a variety of contexts, Irish and Anglo-Irish, of course, but also European, Atlantic and, latterly, global. A landmark publication by the most recent generation of historians of Ireland.