• Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars

Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars

Hardcover

Series: Studies in Early Modern Irish History

British HistoryIrish HistoryOther Wars

ISBN10: 1526131994
ISBN13: 9781526131997
Publisher: Manchester Univ Pr
Published: Mar 9 2020
Pages: 312
Weight: 1.35
Height: 1.20 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.30
Language: English
This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.

1 different editions

Also available

Also in

British History