This volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic contexts.

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Yes, you can access Ireland: 1641 by Micheal O'Siochru,Jane Ohlmeyer, Micheal O'Siochru, Jane Ohlmeyer in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in History & British History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.

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Publisher

Manchester University Press

Year

2016

Print ISBN

9780719097263

eBook ISBN

9781784992040

Edition

Topic

History

Subtopic

British History

Index

History

Cover
Half Title
Series
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of figures
List of contributors
Series editors’ preface
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction – 1641: fresh contexts and perspectives
2 Early modern violence from memory to history: a historiographical essay
3 The ‘1641 massacres’
4 1641 in a colonial context
5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion
6 Out of the blue? Provincial unrest in Ireland before 1641
7 News from Ireland: Catalan, Portuguese and Castilian pamphlets on the Confederate War in Ireland
8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions
9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War
10 Why remember terror? Memories of violence in the Dutch Revolt
11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion
12 How to make a successful plantation: colonial experiment in America
13 An Irish Black Legend? 1641 and the Iberian Atlantic
14 Afterword – Settler colonies, ethno-religious violence and historical documentation: comparative reflections on Southeast Asia and Ireland
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