British Interventions in Early Modern Ireland

This book offers a fundamentally new perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading historians challenge traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and they reveals the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. As they attempted to do well for themselves in Ireland, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they...
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This book offers a fundamentally new perspective on Ireland and Britain in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Leading historians challenge traditional views about the nature of British conquest and colonisation and they reveals the contradictions, disappointments and failures, which attended the efforts of English and Scottish colonists. As they attempted to do well for themselves in Ireland, the British became increasingly aware of the need not to destroy the resources they sought to exploit. They wanted to 'make good'.