Making Ireland British 1580-1650

• Challenges preconceptions about the relationship between Britain and Ireland
• Sheds new light on European colonization in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries
• By the editor of The Origins of Empire, the first volume in The Oxford History of the British Empire

Readership: Scholars and students of early modern British and Irish history, English literature, and Irish Studies.

Nicholas Canny, Professor of History, National University of Ireland, Galway

"... for many years it will be compulsory reading for anyone wishing to understand English colonial policy and its impact on native society." - Wiliam and Mary Quarterly

"Canny's knowledge of literary as well as official sources is exemplary." - Wiliam and Mary Quarterly

"No other work reveals so much about the transformation of life across the island through the remorseless colonial process that began in Elizabethan times." - Wiliam and Mary Quarterly

"Let there be no mistake: Making Ireland British is an extraordinary book, a major feat of scholarship, and probably the single most important study of early modern Ireland to appear for a generation or more." - Wiliam and Mary Quarterly

"wonderful work, richly layered and contextualised ... a masterly study and an unmitigated triumph ... a masterpiece of painstaking research ... [a] splendid volume." - History Today

1: Spenser Sets the Agenda
2: The English Presence in Spenser's Ireland
3: The Munster Plantation: Theory and Practice
4: Plantation in Ireland 1603-1622: Theory and Practice
5: The Politics of Plantation 1622-1641
6: The British Presence in Wentworth's Ireland
7: Plantation and Politics: The Irish Response
8: The Irish Insurrection of 1641