A short history of Ireland, 1500-2000

A brisk, concise, and readable overview of Irish history from the Protestant Reformation to the dawn of the twenty-first century Five centuries of Irish history are explored in this informative and accessible volume. John Gibney proceeds from the beginning of Ireland's modern period and continu...

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Auteur principal : Gibney John (Auteur)
Format : Livre
Langue : anglais
Titre complet : A short history of Ireland, 1500-2000 / John Gibney
Publié : New Haven : Yale University Press , C 2017
Description matérielle : 1 volume (xiv, 281 pages)
Sujets :
  • P. 1
  • Introduction : Ireland on the edge
  • Part I. The sixteenth century
  • P. 11
  • 1. New faith, new kingdom
  • P. 23
  • 2. Elizabethan Ireland
  • P. 35
  • 3. Tyrone's rebellion : the Nine Years War
  • P. 44
  • Where historians disagree
  • Part II. The seventeenth century
  • P. 49
  • 4. Plantation
  • P. 63
  • 5. The wars of the three kingdoms
  • P. 69
  • 6. The Cromwellian conquest and the restoration
  • P. 78
  • 7. Two kings
  • P. 85
  • Where historians disagree
  • Part III. The eighteenth centur
  • P. 89
  • 8. Ascendancy
  • P. 99
  • 9. Hidden Irelands
  • P. 106
  • 10. Patriots
  • P. 115
  • 11. The French disease and the Union
  • P. 124
  • Where historians disagree
  • Part IV. The nineteenth century
  • P. 131
  • 12. The age of O'Connell
  • P. 142
  • 13. Famine and diaspora
  • P. 152
  • 14. New departures
  • P. 168
  • 15. Culture wars
  • P. 180
  • Where historians disagree
  • Part V. The twentieth century
  • P. 187
  • 16. Revolution
  • P. 203
  • 17. Two Irelands
  • P. 218
  • 18. The second republic
  • P. 226
  • 19. Between Boston and Berlin
  • P. 240
  • Where historians disagree : an epilogue