The Case of Ireland
Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848
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- Author: James Stafford, Columbia University, New York
- Date Published: May 2024
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- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009013741
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The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society, associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.
Read more- Connects Irish political thought with British and European writings
- Reveals how the legacies of Enlightenment thinking about Ireland persisted into the nineteenth century
- Uncovers the ideological origins and resonances of major events in Irish history and how Ireland was central to European perceptions of the British Empire
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'An impressive book that deserves a wide readership.' History Ireland
See more reviews'By demonstrating the significance of Ireland in the politics and debates of the European intellectual community during the last half of the eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth, Stafford's book makes a substantial contribution to the task of understanding the history of Europe as a whole. It should be read by anyone interested in this history.' Sam Clark, International Journal of Comparative Sociology
'… should be read by anyone interested in European history, political, socioeconomic, and cultural, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' Paul Tonks, Journal of Modern History
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- Date Published: May 2024
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9781009013741
- length: 308 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 18 mm
- weight: 0.46kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The enlightenment critique of empire in Ireland, c. 1750–1776
2. Commerce without empire? 'Free trade' and 'legislative independence', 1776–1787
3. Property, revolution and peace, 1789–1803
4. Enlightenment against revolution: commerce, aristocracy and the case for union, 1798–1801
5. The granary of Great Britain: war, population and agriculture 1798–1815
6. Democracy, nationality and the social question, 1815–1848
Conclusion: Ireland between empires.
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