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The First Irish Cities

An Eighteenth-Century Transformation

By: David Dickson

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The First Irish Cities

An Eighteenth-Century Transformation

By: David Dickson

The untold story of a group of Irish cities and their remarkable development before the age of industrialization A backward corner of Europe in 1600, Ireland was transformed during the following centuries. This was most evident in the rise of its cities, notably Dublin and Cork. David Dickson explores ten urban centers and their patterns of physical, social, and cultural evolution, relating this to the legacies of a violent past, and he reflects on their subsequent partial eclipse. Beautifully illustrated, this account reveals how the country’s cities were distinctive and—through the Irish diaspora—influential beyond Ireland’s shores.

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377

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Yale University Press

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0300255896

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9780300255898

Old World Colony

Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830

By: David Dickson

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Old World Colony

Cork and South Munster, 1630-1830

By: David Dickson

This is a groundbreaking study of Cork's rise from insignificance to international importance as a city and port, and of South Munster's development from agricultural hinterland to one of early modern Ireland's wealthiest regions and a symbol of a new commercial order. Reconstructing the framework of a pre-modern regional society in a way never before attempted for Ireland, Old World Colony integrates social, economic, and political history across the heartlands of "the Hidden Ireland" from the seventeenth century's civil wars to Catholic emancipation in the 1820s. Dickson shows that colonization and commerce transformed the region, but at a price: even in South Munster's formative years, the problems of pre-Famine Ireland-gross income inequality and land scarcity-were already evident. Co-published with Cork University Press, Ireland Wisconsin edition for sale only in the U.S., its territories and possessions, and Canada. "A masterful account. . . . So finely nuanced and meticulously researched that it effectively raises the historiographical bar for Irish regional history."--James G. Patterson, H-Atlantic, H-Net Reviews

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756

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Univ of Wisconsin Press

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0299211800

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9780299211806

The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730

Religion, Identity and Patriotism

By: David Hayton

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The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730

Religion, Identity and Patriotism

By: David Hayton

David Hayton examines the political culture of the Anglo-Irish ruling class, which had settled in Ireland in different ways over a long period and had differing degrees of attachment to England, and shows how its multi-faceted identity evolved.

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246

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Boydell Press

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1843837463

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9781843837466

Entitlement and Complaint

Ending Careers and Reviewing Lives in Post-Revolutionary France

By: David G. Troyansky

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Entitlement and Complaint

Ending Careers and Reviewing Lives in Post-Revolutionary France

By: David G. Troyansky

Entitlement and Complaint explores the early history of the right to retirement and the shaping of the modern life course, applying cutting-edge insights from social, cultural, and political history as well as gerontology to an extraordinarily rich collection of retirement dossiers from the post-Revolutionary French Ministry of Justice. While it tracks career patterns, with all their continuities and interruptions, it reveals the original ways that people were coming to understand the course of their personal, professional, and political lives in an era of revolutionary turmoil and how they reconfigured those lives in the half-century that followed. The book argues that a succession of political regimes and a shift from a world of favor and privilege to a world of right formed the context for changes in how people spoke of their own lives, careers, and desires and how they juxtaposed their own life histories with emerging narratives of a more public and national history. It uses the example of the magistracy to get at ideas of public service and entitlement, but it balances the development of state institutions with people's uses of those institutions, and it shows how people tried to make sense retrospectively of their experiences as they made themselves both heroes and victims on the French historical stage. As they aged and as one cohort replaced another, their narratives of self and career evolved into something increasingly formulaic and recognizably modern"--

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257

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Oxford University Press

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0197638759

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9780197638750

Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851

By: David Todd

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Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851

By: David Todd

In the aftermath of the French Revolution, advocates of protection against foreign competition prevailed in a fierce controversy over international trade. This groundbreaking study is the first to examine this 'protectionist turn' in full. Faced with a reaffirmation of mercantile jealousy under the Bourbon Restoration, Benjamin Constant, Jean-Baptiste Say and regional publicists advocated the adoption of the liberty of commerce in order to consolidate the new liberal order. But after the Revolution of 1830 a new generation of liberal thinkers endeavoured to reconcile the jealousy of trade with the discourse of commercial society and political liberty. New justifications for protection oscillated between an industrialist reinvention of jealousy and an aspiration to self-sufficiency as a means of attenuating the rise of urban pauperism. A strident denunciation of British power and social imbalances served to defuse the internal tensions of the protectionist discourse and facilitated its dissemination across the French political spectrum.

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299

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Cambridge University Press

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1316298647

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9781316298640

Charles Laughton

A Filmography, 1928-1962

By: David A. Redfern

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Charles Laughton

A Filmography, 1928-1962

By: David A. Redfern

Oscar-winning actor, translator of Bertolt Brecht's Galileo, and director of the iconoclastic The Night of the Hunter, Charles Laughton's name alone commanded box office and theatre acclaim. This book is the first to offer an intimate examination of his 54 films produced in Britain and Hollywood from 1928 to 1962. Each has technical credits and cast lists, as well as publicity taglines, a plot synopsis, selected dialogue, Oscars won or nominated, and production commentaries. Also provided are listings of Laughton's miscellaneous shorts and feature films, abandoned film projects, amateur and professional stage appearances, select radio broadcasts, television broadcasts, and audio recordings. Appendices detail the studios, performers and cinematographers of the Laughton films.

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McFarland

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147664263X

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9781476642635

Book's by David James Livesey

The First Irish Cities

The First Irish Cities

Old World Colony

Old World Colony

The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730

The Anglo-Irish Experience, 1680-1730

Entitlement and Complaint

Entitlement and Complaint

Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851

Free Trade and its Enemies in France, 1814–1851

Charles Laughton

Charles Laughton

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