Divided Kingdom: Ireland 1630-1800

by S.J. Connolly

Book Overview

For Ireland the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were an era marked by war, economic transformation, and the making and remaking of identities. By the 1630s the era of wars of conquest seemed firmly in the past. But the British civil wars of the mid-seventeenth century fractured both Protestant and Catholic Ireland along lines defined by different combinations of religious and political allegiance. Later, after 1688, Ireland became the battlefield...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 019954347X
• ISBN13: 9780199543472
• Release Date: October 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 544 Pages
• Weight: 2.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.1" x 9.1"