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The Case of Ireland

Commerce, Empire and the European Order, 1750–1848

James Stafford author

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:23rd May '24

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Explores Ireland's central role in European debates about empire and commerce in the global age of revolutions.

Demonstrating Ireland's central role in European debates about empire and commerce in the global age of revolutions, this pathbreaking book offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.The late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries have long been seen as a foundational period for modern Irish political traditions such as nationalism, republicanism and unionism. The Case of Ireland offers a fresh account of Ireland's neglected role in European debates about commerce and empire in what was a global era of war and revolution. Drawing on a broad range of writings from merchants, agrarian improvers, philosophers, politicians and revolutionaries across Europe, this book shows how Ireland became a field of conflict and projection between rival visions of politics in commercial society, associated with the warring empires of Britain and France. It offers a new perspective on the crisis and transformation of the British Empire at the end of the eighteenth century, and restores Ireland to its rightful place at the centre of European intellectual history.

'An impressive book that deserves a wide readership.' History Ireland
'By demonstrating the significance of Ireland in the politics and debates of the European intellectual community during the last half of the eighteenth century and first half of the nineteenth, Stafford's book makes a substantial contribution to the task of understanding the history of Europe as a whole. It should be read by anyone interested in this history.' Sam Clark, International Journal of Comparative Sociology
'… should be read by anyone interested in European history, political, socioeconomic, and cultural, in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.' Paul Tonks, Journal of Modern History

ISBN: 9781009013741

Dimensions: 228mm x 151mm x 18mm

Weight: 460g

308 pages