Empire and enterprise : money, power and the Adventurers for Irish Land during the British Civil Wars /

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This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight fo...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Brown, David (Writer on Irish history) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.
Series:Studies in early modern Irish history.
Subjects:
Committee of Adventurers in London for Lands in Ireland.
Committee of Adventurers in London for Lands in Ireland
1600-1714
Land tenure > Ireland > 17th century.
Land settlement > Ireland > History > 17th century.
Propriété foncière > Irlande > 17e siècle.
Colonisation intérieure > Irlande > Histoire > 17e siècle.
HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714).
Politics and government
Military participation > Irish
Land settlement
Commerce
Land tenure
Ireland > History > 1625-1649.
Great Britain > History > Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660.
Great Britain > Commerce > History > 17th century.
Great Britain > History > Civil War, 1642-1649 > Participation, Irish.
Great Britain > Politics and government > 1603-1714.
Irlande > Histoire > 1625-1649.
Grande-Bretagne > Histoire > 1649-1660 (Commonwealth et protectorat)
Grande-Bretagne > Politique et gouvernement > 1603-1714.
Great Britain
Ireland
British history.
Caribbean.
Colonies.
Cromwell.
Empire.
English Civil War.
Finance.
Irish history.
Merchants.
Slavery.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Atlantic oligarchy: Ireland in the early English Atlantic world
  • The Three Kingdoms
  • The Adventure for Irish land
  • Grocers' Hall
  • Commonwealth
  • Republic
  • Restoration
  • Conclusion.

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