Land and Popular Politics in Ireland: County Mayo from the Plantation to the Land War

ISBN-13: 9780521466837 / Angielski / Miękka / 1994 / 388 str.

Jr. Donald E. Jordan

Opis

This book analyzes County Mayo in Ireland from the Elizabethan pacification of the county to the first stage of the Land War of the late nineteenth century. During those three centuries the county was transformed from being a remote, isolated, impoverished and hostile region of the country to being at the center of Irish politics and integrated into an agrarian capitalist economy. The book is divided into two sections. The first contains an analysis of the county prior to the Great Famine, and provides the foundation for a core/periphery analysis of Mayo's economic development and its impact upon popular politics in the county. The second, employing a core/periphery analysis of the post-Famine economic and political transformation of the county, demonstrates that the structural changes that gave rise to the Land War occurred more rapidly in central Mayo than along its western coastline or eastern boundaries. This uneven development helps account for both the initial strength and rapid disintegration of the land movement in the county.

Recenzje

"...it is the level of detail with which the themes are explored so concisely and clearly by Donald E. Jordan that marks a real advance. In addition, he makes an important revision to accepted views on some key issues...Jordan has with this book considerably advanced our understanding of the dynamics and processes of the Irish land struggle in the crucible county where it began." Histoire sociale

Spis treści

Part I. County Mayo Prior to the Famine: 1. The natural and historical setting; 2. The economy and society of County Mayo, 1691–1846; 3. Pre-Famine popular politics and rural protest; Part II. The Post-Famine Transformation of Mayo: 4. Economy and society, 1846–1877; 5. Post-Famine politics prior to the Land War; Part III. The Land War in Mayo: 6. The West's awake!: the early months of the Land War in Mayo; 7. The centralisation of the agitation, June 1879–April 1880; 8. Tensions within the Land League in Mayo, 1880; 9. The collapse of the land agitation, 1880–1881; Appendices; Bibliography.