Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland
Political Discourse in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Ireland

Author: D. G. Boyce

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-05-17

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 1403932727

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This collection explores the complex political thinking of a fundamental period of Irish history. It moves from the political, religious and military turmoil of the seventeenth century, through the years of the protestant ascendancy, to the revolutionary events at the end of the eighteenth century. The book addresses the basic conflicts of the age. In the case of religious politics it examines the hopes, anxieties, and interactions of Anglicans, Catholics and Presbyterians. It investigates the great political issues of the day - the constitutional thinkers and politicians involved in these struggles. Light is thrown on the great and the good - Swift and Molyneux, Grattan and Lucas - as well as on a huge cast of forgotten or never known figures, be they royal officials, lawyers, clergymen, landowners, or popular writers. A whole world of vibrant political debate is exposed.

A War of Religion
A War of Religion

Author: James B. Bell

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2008-05-30

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 0230583210

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Examines the controversial establishment of the first Anglican Church in Boston in 1686, and how later, political leaders John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes exploited the disputes as political dynamite together with taxation, trade, and the quartering of troops: topics which John Adams later recalled as causes of the American Revolution.

Madam Britannia
Madam Britannia

Author: Emma Major

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 0199699372

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Using Britannia as a central figure, this book explores the neglected relationship between women, church, and nation. Drawing on a wealth of manuscript, printed, and graphic material, Emma Major argues that Britannia became established as an emblem of nation from 1688 and gained in importance over the following century.