The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536-1588

ISBN-13: 9780521520041 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 344 str.

Ciaran Brady; Anthony Fletcher; John Guy

Opis

This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that the immense difficulties faced by the reformers in pursuing their objectives forced them to make administrative innovations that ultimately contradicted and undermined their original policy.