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DICKSON:OLD WORLD COLONY P/B (R)
Dr. David Dickson
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Description for DICKSON:OLD WORLD COLONY P/B (R)
Paperback. Cork. Traces how rural society and farming evolved, and surveys the world of landowners and of the marginalized, of wealthy merchants and the teeming masses of the towns. This study sets the more familiar landmarks of the nineteenth century - agrarian conflict, structural poverty, and the collapse of food supply - in a complex historical framework. Num Pages: 760 pages, Illustrations, maps, ports. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JD; 3JF; 3JH; HBJD1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 242 x 166 x 41. Weight in Grams: 1242.
This ground-breaking study traces the fortunes of one of Ireland's wealthiest regions between 1630 and 1830. South Munster's strengths were its agricultural resources and its prime Atlantic location, and the rise of the city of Cork from insignificance to international importance was critical in the exploitation of this wealth as well as being symbolic of a new commercial order. Cork's wholesale hinterland embraced much of Kerry, Waterford and Co. Cork itself, and the study examines the whole of the region. "Old world colony" traces how rural society and farming evolved, and surveys the world of landowners and of the marginalized, ... Read more
This ground-breaking study traces the fortunes of one of Ireland's wealthiest regions between 1630 and 1830. South Munster's strengths were its agricultural resources and its prime Atlantic location, and the rise of the city of Cork from insignificance to international importance was critical in the exploitation of this wealth as well as being symbolic of a new commercial order. Cork's wholesale hinterland embraced much of Kerry, Waterford and Co. Cork itself, and the study examines the whole of the region. "Old world colony" traces how rural society and farming evolved, and surveys the world of landowners and of the marginalized, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2005
Publisher
Cork University Press
Condition
New
Number of Pages
760
Place of Publication
Cork, Ireland
ISBN
9781859184035
SKU
9781859184035
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Ref
99-1
About Dr. David Dickson
David Dickson is Associate Professor of Modern History in Trinity College Dublin. He is author of Arctic Ireland (1997) and New foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 (2nd ed., 2000), and has recently co-edited Refiguring Ireland: Essays in honour of L.M. Cullen (2003) and 1798: A bicentenary perspective (2003).
Reviews for DICKSON:OLD WORLD COLONY P/B (R)
this outstanding study explains why the city and its region deserve the resonant title. Unlike the fireworks and sea serpents in the Lee, it will endure, and so ensure that the origins of Cork's economic and cultural distinctiveness are understood. Toby Barnard It is a beautiful, hefty object, with excellent picture content sensibly placed throughout the text. Dickson ... Read more