Contested Island: Ireland 1460-1630

by S.J. Connolly

Book Overview

Between the 1460s and the 1630s Ireland was transformed from a medieval into a modern society. A poor society on the periphery of Europe, dominated by the conflicts of competing warlords--Irish and English--it later became a centralised political unit with a single government and code of laws,
and a still primitive, but rapidly developing, market economy. These changes, however, had been achieved by brutal wars of conquest, while large scale colonisation...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199563713
• ISBN13: 9780199563715
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 440 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.1"