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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
[2017]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Ireland on the edge
- Part I. The sixteenth century. New faith, new kingdom
- Elizabethan Ireland
- Tyrone's rebellion : the Nine Years War
- Where historians disagree
- Part II. The seventeenth century. Plantation
- The wars of the three kingdoms
- The Cromwellian conquest and the restoration
- Two kings
- Where historians disagree
- Part III. The eighteenth century. Ascendancy
- Hidden Irelands
- Patriots
- The French disease and the Union
- Where historians disagree
- Part IV. The nineteenth century. The age of O'Connell
- Famine and diaspora
- New departures
- Culture wars
- Where historians disagree
- Part V. The twentieth century. Revolution
- Two Irelands
- The second republic
- Between Boston and Berlin
- Where historians disagree : an epilogue.