The impact of the English colonization of Ireland in the sixteenth century : a "very troublesome people" / Scott E. Hendrix ; with a foreword by Troy L. Kickler
1 online resource (iv, 110 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates) : color illustrations
Contents
The Age of Exploitation -- Forcing submission : the Tudor Conquest -- Assault on the Irish Way of Life -- Irish Religion and English Colonial Efforts -- Postlude
Summary
No scholarship exists on the English colonization of Ireland in the sixteenth centuries from a post-colonial perspective, and this book seeks to fill in that gap in the literature. While aimed at academic generalists, and described as an introduction to the topic, the book expands ongoing discussions about the nature of imperialism, and whether or not there is a paradigmatic way in which it occurs that transcends its particular time and place. Ireland is a microcosm that when studied reveals how the contemporary world still shows lingering traces of colonialism. Hendrix convincingly shows how
