Sir John Davies and the Conquest of Ireland
Subtitle: A Study in Legal Imperialism (Cambridge Studies in the History and Theory of Politics)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: July 18, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780521526579
Subjects: British & Irish history: c 1500 to c 1700; Foundations of law; c 1700 to c 1800; c 1800 to c 1900; History - General History; History; History: American; Ireland; Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice; Europe - Great Britain - General; Western Europe - General; History / Europe / Western; History / Great Britain; History-Europe - Great Britain - General; Law-Administrative Law & Regulatory Practice
First sentence: The sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in Ireland constitute one of the great watersheds in Irish history, a decisive period that witnessed the reduction of the whole island to effective English sovereignty.