Overview
- Takes a truly interdisciplinary approach, bringing together recent scholarship from historical and literary studies
- Covers a broad chronological and geographical range, allowing for developments and continuities to be traced across several centuries and borders
- Contributes to ongoing debates relating to Ireland and empire, postcolonial studies and Irish studies across its four parts: inhabiting, writing, resisting and networking empire
Part of the book series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies (CIPCSS)
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Inhabiting Empire
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Writing/Imagining Empire
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About this book
This edited collection explores the complexities of Irish involvement in empire. Despite complaining regularly of treatment as a colony by England, Ireland nevertheless played a significant part in Britain’s imperialism, from its formative period in the late eighteenth century through to the decolonizing years of the early twentieth century. Framed by two key events of world history, the American Revolution and Indian Independence, this book examines Irish involvement in empire in several interlinked sections: through issues of migration and inhabitation; through literary and historical representations of empire; through Irish support for imperialism and involvement with resistance movements abroad; and through Irish participation in the extensive and intricate networks of empire. Informed by recent historiographical and theoretical perspectives, and including several detailed archival investigations, this volume offers an interdisciplinary and evolving view of a burgeoning field of research and will be of interest to scholars of Irish studies, imperial and postcolonial studies, history and literature.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Daniel Sanjiv Roberts is a Reader in English at Queen’s University Belfast, UK. He has published major scholarly editions of writers such as Charles Johnston, Robert Southey and Thomas De Quincey and written widely on eighteenth-century literature, and on Indian and Irish literatures in English. His edition of Southey's The Curse of Kehama was cited as a Distinguished Scholarly Edition by the M.L.A. in 2005.
Jonathan Jeffrey Wright is a Lecturer in History at Maynooth University, Ireland. His publications include The ‘Natural Leaders’ and their World: Politics, Culture and Society in Belfast, c. 1801-1832 (2012), Spaces of Global Knowledge: Exhibition, Encounter and Exchange in an Age of Empire (2015, edited with Diarmid A. Finnegan) and Urban Spaces in Nineteenth-Century Ireland (2018, edited with Georgina Laragy and Olwen Purdue).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Ireland’s Imperial Connections, 1775–1947
Editors: Daniel Sanjiv Roberts, Jonathan Jeffrey Wright
Series Title: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25984-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25983-9Published: 15 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-25986-0Published: 15 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-25984-6Published: 05 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2635-1633
Series E-ISSN: 2635-1641
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 323
Number of Illustrations: 4 illustrations in colour
Topics: Imperialism and Colonialism, History of Britain and Ireland, Literary History, British and Irish Literature, World History, Global and Transnational History