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26%OFFJohn McGurk - The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: The 1590s Crisis - 9780719080517 - 9780719080517
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The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: The 1590s Crisis

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Description for The Elizabethan Conquest of Ireland: The 1590s Crisis Paperback. This is a study of how the prosecution of the Nine Years' War in the last decade of Elizabeth I's reign impinged on government and society at central and local levels in the shires of England and Wales. Num Pages: 304 pages, 1, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBR; 3JB; HBJD1; HBLH. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 157 x 17. Weight in Grams: 462 290pp

This book is about the impact of the Nine Years' War on central and local government and society in the English and Welsh shires in the 1590s. It contains fascinating new insights into the centrality of Ireland to England's problems in the crucial last decade of Elizabeth I's reign.

However, this is in no sense a conventional military history, but rather a history of the social impact of the war and the strains it put upon the Elizabethan government. Based on painstaking primary research, it also covers the recruitment of levies for Ireland, their shipping, their service in ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press Manchester
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719080517
SKU
9780719080517
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Ref
99-1

About John McGurk
John McGurk is Associate Professor at the University of Ulster -- .

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