Ireland in the age of imperialism and revolution, 1760-1801
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Ireland in the age of imperialism and revolution, 1760-1801
（Clarendon paperbacks）
Clarendon Press , Oxford University Press, 1991, c1979
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Bibliography: p. [705]-718
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The latter decades of the eighteenth century were for Ireland an era of momentous political development. This book surveys the social, economic, and intellectual background; indicates the links between Ireland and Great Britain and the rest of the Empire; examines the machinery of central and local government; and describes the course of politics at a time when political activity greatly accelerated, and was strongly influenced by external forces. R. B. McDowell
analyses the political agitation and agrarian discontent of the 1790s, and the threats which they posed both to national defence and to the maintenance of law and order. He concludes with an examination of the insurrection of 1798, and the British government's attempt to solve the Irish question by the
union of Ireland with Great Britain.
Table of Contents
- List of abbreviations
- Acknowledgements
- I. The Background: The economic and social structure
- Administration and politics
- Intellectual and religious life
- II. Constitutional Conflict: A restive Parliament
- The American War and the volunteers
- An Anglo-Irish Settlement
- Parliamentary reform and protection
- Pitt and Ireland
- III. The Revolutionary Era: The French Revolution and Ireland
- The radical revival
- The Catholic agitation
- Radicalism and reaction
- Fitzwilliam's Viceroyalty
- Agrarian trouble and militant radicalism
- Ireland and the Great French War
- The maintenance of law and order
- Insurrection
- Aftermath
- The Union
- Bibliography
- Index
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