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Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 / R.F. Foster
by Foster, Robert Fitzroy (1949-)
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- ISBN 13
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London: Allen Lane , 1989. 1st edition. Hardcover. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description: xiii, 688 p.: ill., maps; 20 cm. Contents: Varieties of Irishness -- ch. 1. 'Wild shamrock manners' : Ireland in 1600 -- ch. 2. 'Nationalism' and recusancy -- ch. 3. Plantation : theory and practice -- ch. 4. Confederate Ireland -- ch. 5. Cromwellian Ireland -- ch. 6. Restoration Ireland -- ch. 7. Shipwreck and deliverance : the foundations of ascendancy -- ch. 8. The ascendancy mind -- ch. 9. Economy, society and the 'hidden' Irelands -- ch. 10. The structure of politics -- ch. 11. Americans, volunteers and the politics of 'patriotism' -- ch. 12. 'Enthusiasm defying punishment' : revolution, Republicanism and reaction -- ch. 13. The mobilization of popular politics -- ch. 14. The famine : before and after -- ch. 15. Ireland abroad -- ch. 16. Land, politics and nationalism -- ch. 17. The politics of Parnellism -- ch. 18. The 'new' nationalism -- pt. 19. War and revolution -- 20. The takeover -- 21. In a free state -- 22. The de Valera dispensation -- ch. 23. 'Modern' Ireland? Subject: Ireland History Modern period, 1500-. Genre: History. Illustrated.
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- Title
- Modern Ireland, 1600-1972 / R.F. Foster
- Author
- Foster, Robert Fitzroy (1949-)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
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- Edition
- 1st edition
- ISBN 10
- 0713990104
- ISBN 13
- 9780713990102
- Publisher
- London: Allen Lane
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
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