The Case of Ireland (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781316516126)

The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society, associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.

Author: James Stafford
ISBN-10: 1316516121
ISBN-13: 9781316516126
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 02/17/2022
Pages: 310
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.29lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d