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Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars

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Book cover type: Paperback
  • ISBN13: 9781526163783
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Subject: N/A
  • Publisher: Manchester University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press
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  • Original Price: GBP 30.0
  • Language: English
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  • Item Weight: 440 grams
  • BISAC Subject(s): Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714)

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At the start of the English Civil War, a small group of merchants quickly gained an iron grip on the country's trade. They dictated key policies for Ireland and the colonies and financed the struggle against Charles I, raising £250,000 to send an army to Ireland but sending it instead to fight for parliament in England. These merchants were the Adventurers for Irish land.

Although they supported Cromwell's military campaigns, the leading Adventurers rejected his Protectorate in a dispute over their Irish land entitlements and eventually helped to restore the monarchy. Charles II rewarded them with one million confiscated Irish acres, despite their role in deposing his father. Empire and enterprise is the first book to explain this great paradox in Irish history, and to recognize the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. It examines the background and relentless rise of the Adventurers, the remarkable scope of their trading empires and their profound political influence.

Empire and enterprise is essential reading for students and scholars working on Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.

David Brown is a research fellow at the Department of History, Trinity College Dublin

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