The roots of English colonialism in Ireland
By: John Patrick Montaño
Series: Critical perspectives on empire; Critical perspectives on empire
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 426
ISBN-13: 9780521198288
Subjects: Plantations; Pastoral systems; British; Land tenure; Ireland; Colonial influence; Agriculture; History
Description: "This is a major new 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"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: nature is a language.; title: 1. Planting a landscape: cultivation and reform in Ireland.; title: 2. Planning a landscape I: cultivation as reformation.; title: 3. Planning a landscape II: cultivation through plantation.; title: 4. Inscribing a landscape: maps, surveys and records.; title: 5. Material signs: ordering the built environment.; title: 6. A civil offer: the failure to adopt English customs.; title: 7. Bad manners, nasty habits: the elimination of Irish customs.