Land, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary
This new scholarly study of Ireland during the eighteenth century is the first full-scale examination of an entire Irish county and is based on extensive and meticulous research. In it, Thomas P. Power sets out to reconstruct in detail the economic, social, and political history of Tipperary, Ireland's largest inland county. He examines the growing commercialization of the local economy, the changing composition of landed society, the dynamics of land tenure, and the emergence of long-term rural unrest and sectarian tension. The book makes a valuable contribution to current debates on the nature of Irish social and economic development.
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Land, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary
This new scholarly study of Ireland during the eighteenth century is the first full-scale examination of an entire Irish county and is based on extensive and meticulous research. In it, Thomas P. Power sets out to reconstruct in detail the economic, social, and political history of Tipperary, Ireland's largest inland county. He examines the growing commercialization of the local economy, the changing composition of landed society, the dynamics of land tenure, and the emergence of long-term rural unrest and sectarian tension. The book makes a valuable contribution to current debates on the nature of Irish social and economic development.
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Land, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary

Land, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary

by Thomas P. Power
Land, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary

Land, Politics, and Society in Eighteenth-Century Tipperary

by Thomas P. Power

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This new scholarly study of Ireland during the eighteenth century is the first full-scale examination of an entire Irish county and is based on extensive and meticulous research. In it, Thomas P. Power sets out to reconstruct in detail the economic, social, and political history of Tipperary, Ireland's largest inland county. He examines the growing commercialization of the local economy, the changing composition of landed society, the dynamics of land tenure, and the emergence of long-term rural unrest and sectarian tension. The book makes a valuable contribution to current debates on the nature of Irish social and economic development.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780198203162
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication date: 12/16/1993
Pages: 392
Product dimensions: 8.28(w) x 6.84(h) x 1.15(d)

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University of Toronto
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