Old
World Colony
Cork and South Munster 1630–1830
David Dickson
History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora
James S. Donnelly, Jr., and Thomas Archdeacon, Series Editors
"Unique in Irish historiography,
this is indeed a masterpiece." —Cormac Ó Gráda,
University College, Dublin
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.
David Dickson is associate professor of modern history
at Trinity College Dublin.
Copublished with Cork University Press, Ireland
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Awards
Dickson's book received an important award from the American
Conference for Irish Studies. Here's the announcement that appears
on their Web site at www.acisweb.com/prizes.php?year=2005
"James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for
Books on History and Social Sciences (Chair: Timothy J. White.
Members: Nancy Curtin, Kerby A. Miller)
David Dickson, Old World Colony: Cork and South Munster 1630–1830.
University of Wisconsin Press, 2005.
This is a magisterial book, twenty years
in the making. It links colonial ambition, indigenous response
with the economic and social development of South Munster for
two centuries. The research and analysis are first rate. Dickson
has analyzed the social, political, economic, and religious motivations
of those who came to Munster and how they interacted with the
Old English and the Irish. This book represents a level of scholarly
research and achievement not found in many books. It is a very
worthy winner of the 2005 Donnelly Prize."
Media & bookseller inquiries regarding review copies, events, and interviews can be directed to the publicity department at publicity@wwwtest.uwpress.wisc.edu or (608) 263-0734. (If you want to examine a book for possible course use, please see our Course Books page. If you want to examine a book for possible rights licensing, please see Rights & Permissions.)
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April 2005
744 pp. 7 x 10
110 b/w illus., 10 tables,
8 maps
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