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  • Imagining Ireland's Pasts

    Early Modern Ireland through the Centuries

    by Prof Nicholas Canny ...
    Imagining Ireland's Pasts describes how various authors addressed the history of early modern Ireland over four centuries and explains why they could not settle on an agreed narrative. It shows how conflicting interpretations broke frequently along denominational lines, but that authors were also influenced by ethnic, cultural, and political considerations, and by whether they were resident in ... Read more

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  • The Oxford History of the British Empire: Volume I: The Origins of Empire

    British Overseas Enterprise to the Close of the Seventeenth Century

    by Alaine Low, Wm Roger Louis ...
    Series Book 1 - The Oxford History of the British Empire
    Volume I of the Oxford History of the British Empire explores the origins of empire. It shows how and why England, and later Britain, became involved with transoceanic navigation, trade, and settlement during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. The chapters, by leading historians, both illustrate the interconnections between developments in Europe and overseas and offer specialist studies on ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • Ireland and America

    Empire, Revolution, and Sovereignty

    by Rache Banke, Trevor Burnard, Nicholas Canny, Christa Dierksheide, Matthew P. Dziennik, Professor S. Max Edelson, PhD, Annette Gordon-Reed, Robert G. Ingram, Peter S. Onuf, Jessica Roney, Gordon S. Wood, Andrew J. O’Shaughnessy, Eliga Gould, T. H. Breen ...
    Series series The Revolutionary Age
    Looking at America through the Irish prism and employing a comparative approach, leading and emerging scholars of early American and Atlantic history interrogate anew the relationship between imperial reform and revolution in Ireland and America, offering fascinating insights into the imperial whole of which both places were a part. Revolution would eventually stem from the ways the Irish and ... Read more

    $39.19 USD

  • Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800

    Edited by Nicholas Canny, Anthony Pagden ...
    The description for this book, Colonial Identity in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800, will be forthcoming. ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

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    Africa, Africans, and the Making of the Modern World, 1471 to the Second World War

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