The Roots of English Colonialism in Ireland (Critical Perspectives on Empire)
Cambridge University Press, 8/11/2011
EAN 9780521198288, ISBN10: 0521198283
Hardcover, 442 pages, 22.9 x 15.2 x 2.5 cm
Language: English
This book is a major study of the cultural foundations of the Tudor plantations in Ireland and of early English imperialism more generally. John Patrick Montaño traces the roots of colonialism in the key relationship of cultivation and civility in Tudor England and shows the central role this played in Tudor strategies for settling, civilising and colonising Ireland. The book ranges from the role of cartography, surveying and material culture - houses, fences, fields, roads and bridges - in manifesting the new order to the place of diet, leisure, language and hairstyles in establishing cultural differences as a site of conflict between the Irish and the imperialising state and as a justification for the civilising process. It shows that the ideologies and strategies of colonisation which would later be applied in the New World were already apparent in the practices, material culture and hardening attitude towards barbarous customs of the Tudor regime.
Introduction
nature is a language
1. Planting a landscape
cultivation and reform in Ireland
2. Planning a landscape I
cultivation as reformation
3. Planning a landscape II
cultivation through plantation
4. Inscribing a landscape
maps, surveys and records
5. Material signs
ordering the built
6. A civil offer
the failure to adopt English customs
7. Bad manners, nasty habits
the elimination of Irish customs
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
Advance praise: 'Anyone interested in Irish history, the Elizabethan period and the origins of modern imperialism ... should read this book.' Lisa Bitel, University of Southern California