Great Britain, European, History & Theory, Ireland, Politics and government, 17th century, Political History 

This volume offers the first ever in-depth analysis of seventeenth-century Irish political thought and culture. Distinguished scholars shed new light on the leading political theorists of the day along with previously neglected writers and treatises. Major issues are addressed including the constitutional relationship between England and Ireland, Ireland's intellectual links with Catholic Europe, and the place of Irish political thought in its wider "three kingdoms," imperial and Atlantic contexts. The volume adds an important new dimension to our understanding of the formation of early modern Irish identity.  

Content:
1. Introduction: for God, king or country? Political thought and culture in seventeenth-century Ireland / Jane Ohlmeyer -- Pt. I. Ireland and England -- 2. Patrick Darcy and the constitutional relationship between Ireland and Britain / Aidan Clarke -- 3. Counter-currents in colonial discourse: the political thought of Vincent and Daniel Gookin / Patricia Coughlan -- 4. Recasting a tradition: William Molyneux and the sources of The Case of Ireland ... Stated (1698) / Patrick Kelly -- 5. Political ideas and their social contexts in seventeenth-century Ireland / Raymond Gillespie -- Pt. II. Ireland and the continent -- 6. Representations of king, parliament and the Irish people in Geoffrey Keating's Foras Feasa ar Eirinn and John Lynch's Cambrensis Eversus (1662) / Bernadette Cunningham -- 7. 'Though Hereticks and Politicians should misinterpret their good zeale': political ideology and Catholicism in early modern Ireland / Tadhg O'Hannrachain -- 8. Gaelic Maccabeanism: the politics of reconciliation / Jerrold Casway -- Pt. III. Irish political thought and the new British and Irish histories -- 9. Covenanting ideology in seventeenth-century Scotland / Allan I. MacInnes -- 10. political economy of Britain and Ireland after the Glorious Revolution / David Armitage -- 11. From ancient constitution to British empire: William Atwood and the imperial crown of England / Charles C. Ludington -- 12. Third Kingdom in its history: an afterword / J. G. A. Pocock. 

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Item donated by Graham Price.
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