The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland

ISBN-13: 9780521198288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 442 str.

John Patrick Monta O.

Opis

This is a major new study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montano traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played in Tudor strategies for settling, civilising and colonising Ireland. The book ranges from the role of cartography, surveying and material culture houses, fences, fields, roads and bridges in manifesting the new order to the place of diet, leisure, language and hairstyles in establishing cultural differences as a site of conflict between the Irish and the imperialising state and as a justification for the civilising process. It shows that the ideologies and strategies of colonisation which would later be applied in the New World were already apparent in the practices, material culture and hardening attitude towards barbarous customs of the Tudor regime."

Recenzje

'The book's texts are diverse, which makes it rich; and the presentation of this material within such a disciplined thematic structure is commendable … citing sundry contemporaries and contextualising their commentaries within social and political contexts, Montaño presents a rather interesting explanation for the origins of the early plantation agenda.' Edward Cavanagh, Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History

Spis treści

Introduction: nature is a language; 1. Planting a landscape: cultivation and reform in Ireland; 2. Planning a landscape I: cultivation as reformation; 3. Planning a landscape II: cultivation through plantation; 4. Inscribing a landscape: maps, surveys and records; 5. Material signs: ordering the built; 6. A civil offer: the failure to adopt English customs; 7. Bad manners, nasty habits: the elimination of Irish customs; Conclusion; Bibliography; Index.