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Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland

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Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland - Klingelhofer, Eric
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Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I's nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish 'savages' are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles. Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English 'adventurers' including such influential intellectual and political figures as Spenser and Ralegh, tried to create a new kind of England, one that gave full opportunity ...

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Castles and Colonists: An Archaeology of Elizabethan Ireland 2010, Manchester University Press, Manchester

ISBN-13: 9780719082467

Hardcover