Author: Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.
Irish-American Trade, 1660-1783
Author: Thomas M. Truxes
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521526166
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 468
Book Description
This book assaults well-established myths depicting Ireland's transatlantic trade as subordinate to British interests.
Ireland since 1800
Author: K.Theodore Hoppen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317881923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317881923
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The second edition of this bestselling survey of modern Irish history covers social, religious as well as political history and offers a distinctive combination of chronological and thematic approaches.
The Oxford Companion to Scottish History
Author: Michael Lynch
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199234825
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Searchable online reference covers more than 20 centuries of history, and interpret history broadly, covering areas such as archaeology, climate, culture, languages, immigration, migration, and emigration. Multi-authored entries analyze key themes such as national identity, women and society, living standards, and religious belief across the centuries in an authoritative yet approachable way. The A-Z entries are complemented by maps, genealogies, a glossary, a chronology, and an extensive guide to further reading.--From title screen.
Publisher:
ISBN: 0199234825
Category : Scotland
Languages : en
Pages : 760
Book Description
Searchable online reference covers more than 20 centuries of history, and interpret history broadly, covering areas such as archaeology, climate, culture, languages, immigration, migration, and emigration. Multi-authored entries analyze key themes such as national identity, women and society, living standards, and religious belief across the centuries in an authoritative yet approachable way. The A-Z entries are complemented by maps, genealogies, a glossary, a chronology, and an extensive guide to further reading.--From title screen.
Famine in Scotland - the 'Ill Years' of the 1690s
Author: Karen J. Cullen
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074864184X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms. Current published knowledge about the causes, extent, and impact of the famine in Scotland is limited and many conclusions have been speculative in the absence of extensive research. Despite the critical importance of this crisis, one of the four disasters of the 1690s, which are widely acknowledged to have contributed to the economic arguments in favour of the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, the topic has been largely neglected and even underplayed by historians. This is the first full study of the famine, providing a unique scholarly examination of the causes, course, characteristics and consequences of the crisis. A comprehensive study of agricultural, climatic, economic, social and demographic issues, the book seeks to establish answers to the fundamental question concerning the event. How serious was it? Using detailed statistical and qualitative analysis, it discusses the regional factors that defined the famine, the impact on the population, and the interconnected causes of this traumatic event.
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
ISBN: 074864184X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
This book examines the climatic and economic origins of the last national famine to occur in Scotland, the nature and extent of the crisis which ensued, and what the impact of the famine was upon the population in demographic, economic and social terms. Current published knowledge about the causes, extent, and impact of the famine in Scotland is limited and many conclusions have been speculative in the absence of extensive research. Despite the critical importance of this crisis, one of the four disasters of the 1690s, which are widely acknowledged to have contributed to the economic arguments in favour of the Union of the Parliaments in 1707, the topic has been largely neglected and even underplayed by historians. This is the first full study of the famine, providing a unique scholarly examination of the causes, course, characteristics and consequences of the crisis. A comprehensive study of agricultural, climatic, economic, social and demographic issues, the book seeks to establish answers to the fundamental question concerning the event. How serious was it? Using detailed statistical and qualitative analysis, it discusses the regional factors that defined the famine, the impact on the population, and the interconnected causes of this traumatic event.
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-century England
Author: James Raven
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England. The impact of non-book printing has been long neglected. A raft of jobbing work serviced commerce and finance while many more practical guides and more ephemeral pamphlets on trade and investment were read than the books that we now associate with the foundations of modern political economy. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have no prior training in the printing house but who took up the sale of publications as another commodity. This book examines the broader social relationship between publication and the practical conduct of trade; the book asks what it meant to be 'published' and how print, text and image related to the involvement of script. The age of Enlightenment was an age of astonishing commercial and financial transformation offering printers and the business press new market opportunities. Print helped to effect a business revolution. The reliability, reputation, regularity, authority and familiarity of print increased trust and confidence and changed attitudes and behaviours. New modes of publication and the wide-ranging products of printing houses had huge implications for the way lives were managed, regulated and recorded. JAMES RAVEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN: 1843839105
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Publishing Business in Eighteenth-Century England assesses the contribution of the business press and the publication of print to the economic transformation of England. The impact of non-book printing has been long neglected. A raft of jobbing work serviced commerce and finance while many more practical guides and more ephemeral pamphlets on trade and investment were read than the books that we now associate with the foundations of modern political economy. A pivotal change in the book trades, apparent from the late seventeenth century, was the increased separation of printers from bookseller-publishers, from the skilled artisan to the bookseller-financier who might have no prior training in the printing house but who took up the sale of publications as another commodity. This book examines the broader social relationship between publication and the practical conduct of trade; the book asks what it meant to be 'published' and how print, text and image related to the involvement of script. The age of Enlightenment was an age of astonishing commercial and financial transformation offering printers and the business press new market opportunities. Print helped to effect a business revolution. The reliability, reputation, regularity, authority and familiarity of print increased trust and confidence and changed attitudes and behaviours. New modes of publication and the wide-ranging products of printing houses had huge implications for the way lives were managed, regulated and recorded. JAMES RAVEN is Professor of Modern History at the University of Essex and a Fellow of Magdalene College Cambridge.
The Agrarian History of England and Wales....
Author: Joan Thirsk
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521257756
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Publisher: CUP Archive
ISBN: 9780521257756
Category : Agriculture
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description
Early Modern Ireland, 1534-1691
Author: Theodore William Moody
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198202424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Reissued with a comprehensive and updated bibliographical supplement, this history of Ireland brings together essays by scholars on Irish history from the earliest times to the present. This is the third of a ten-volume series.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 9780198202424
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 870
Book Description
Reissued with a comprehensive and updated bibliographical supplement, this history of Ireland brings together essays by scholars on Irish history from the earliest times to the present. This is the third of a ten-volume series.
Chapters from The Agrarian History of England and Wales: Volume 4, Agricultural Markets and Trade, 1500-1750
Author: Joan Thirsk
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521368810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Material from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, in paperback with new introductions.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521368810
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Material from The Agrarian History of England and Wales, in paperback with new introductions.
Industry, Trade and People in Ireland, 1650-1950
Author: W. H. Crawford
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN: 9781903688564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Bill Crawford had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in this book are testimony to his many spheres of influence - as teacher, archivist, curator, researcher and writer - and focus on the themes in which Bill himself has been most interested: the relations between town and countryside, the linen industry and trade, land and population. His innovative use of historical sources, extensive scholarship, many publications and the enthusiasm for research which he imparts to so many people are acknowledged in this wide-ranging volume.
Publisher: Ulster Historical Foundation
ISBN: 9781903688564
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 316
Book Description
Bill Crawford had played a key role in the development of Irish economic, social and regional history for over forty years. The essays in this book are testimony to his many spheres of influence - as teacher, archivist, curator, researcher and writer - and focus on the themes in which Bill himself has been most interested: the relations between town and countryside, the linen industry and trade, land and population. His innovative use of historical sources, extensive scholarship, many publications and the enthusiasm for research which he imparts to so many people are acknowledged in this wide-ranging volume.
The Mid-Victorian Generation
Author: K. Theodore Hoppen
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theodore Hoppen identifies three defining themes. The first he calls `established industrialism' - the growing acceptance that factory life and manufacturing had come to stay. It was during these four decades that the balance of employment shifted irrevocably. For the first time in history, more people were employed in industry than worked on the land. The second concerns the `multiple national identities' of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Dr Hoppen's study of the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Empire reveals the existence of a variety of particular and overlapping national traditions flourishing alongside the increasingly influential structure of the unitary state. The third defining theme is that of `interlocking spheres' which the author uses to illuminate the formation of public culture in the period. This, he argues, was generated not by a series of influences operating independently from each other, but by a variety of intermeshed political, economic, scientific, literary and artistic developments. This original and authoritative book will define these pivotal forty years in British history for the next generation.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192543970
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 817
Book Description
This, the third volume to appear in the New Oxford History of England, covers the period from the repeal of the Corn Laws to the dramatic failure of Gladstone's first Home Rule Bill. In his magisterial study of the mid-Victorian generation, Theodore Hoppen identifies three defining themes. The first he calls `established industrialism' - the growing acceptance that factory life and manufacturing had come to stay. It was during these four decades that the balance of employment shifted irrevocably. For the first time in history, more people were employed in industry than worked on the land. The second concerns the `multiple national identities' of the constituent parts of the United Kingdom. Dr Hoppen's study of the histories of Ireland, Scotland, Wales, and the Empire reveals the existence of a variety of particular and overlapping national traditions flourishing alongside the increasingly influential structure of the unitary state. The third defining theme is that of `interlocking spheres' which the author uses to illuminate the formation of public culture in the period. This, he argues, was generated not by a series of influences operating independently from each other, but by a variety of intermeshed political, economic, scientific, literary and artistic developments. This original and authoritative book will define these pivotal forty years in British history for the next generation.