If the Irish Ran the World: Montserrat, 1630-1730 (Joanne Goodman Lectures, 1997) - Hardcover

Akenson, Donald Harman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0773516301 ISBN 13: 9780773516304

Verlag: McGill Queens Univ, 1997

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"If the Irish Ran the World will become the essential work on the island and period. A most interesting and well-done work of scholarship, it will appeal to scholars of Ireland, Britain, and the Caribbean, as well as those concerned with the settlement of the Americas and the study of slavery." Stanley L. Engerman, Departments of Economics and History, University of Rochester "If the Irish Ran the World deals with an important topic and a little-studied island. It is especially valuable in allowing us a glimpse at a highly unstable world where ethnicity was important but was defined in very fluid ways. Akenson's work is also important in providing much fresh information about a far-flung area of empire." Trevor Burnard, Department of History, University of Canterbury, New Zealand

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What would have happened if the Irish had conquered and controlled a vast empire? Would they have been more humane rulers than the English? Using the Caribbean island of Montserrat as a case study of "Irish" imperialism, Donald Akenson addresses these questions and provides a detailed history of the island during its first century as a European colony. Akenson reveals that the Irish proved to be as effective and as unfeeling colonists as the English and the Scottish, despite the long history of oppression in Ireland. He debunks the myth of the "nice" slave holder and the view that indentured labour prevailed in the West Indies in the seventeenth century. He also shows that the long-held habit of ignoring ethnic strife within the white ruling classes in the West Indies is misconceived.

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• Verlag: McGill Queens Univ
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0773516301
• ISBN 13: 9780773516304
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 273