A Nation of Politicians: Gender, Patriotism, and Political Culture in Late Eighteenth-Century Ireland

by Padhraig Higgins, Thomas Archdeacon, James S. Donnelly Jr.

Book Overview

Between the years 1778 and 1784, groups that had previously been excluded from the Irish political sphere--women, Catholics, lower-class Protestants, farmers, shopkeepers, and other members of the laboring and agrarian classes--began to imagine themselves as civil subjects with a stake in matters of the state. This politicization of non-elites was largely driven by the Volunteers, a local militia force that emerged in Ireland as British troops were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299233340
• ISBN13: 9780299233341
• Release Date: February 2010
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"