Making Ireland English : the Irish aristocracy in the seventeenth century
Record details
- ISBN: 030017750X
- ISBN: 9780300177503
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xxii, 668 pages) : illustrations
remote - Publisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 2012.
Content descriptions
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Formatted Contents Note: | Part III: The sinews of power -- Chapter 13: Income -- Levels of wealth -- Landed entrepreneurs and improving landlords -- Urbanization and commercialization -- Overseas expansionism -- Conclusion -- Chapter 15: Lineage and formation -- Kinship and Clientage networks -- Children -- Schooling and Education -- Grand tours and the exercise of arms -- Conclusion -- Chapter 16: Death and memory -- Preparing for death -- Cause of death -- Funerals -- Memorialization and posterity -- Conclusion -- Chapter 17: Conclusion -- Notes -- Appendix I: Lands held by resident titled nobles in 1641, ranked according to size -- Appendix II: Office holding and political activity of resident peers, c. 1600-c.1690 -- Appendix III: Military and political activity of resident peers during the 1640s. -- Appendix IV: Peers recorded in the 1660 poll tax (the so-called '1659 census') -- Appendix V: Attendance and activity in the House of Lords, 1661-6 -- Appendix VI: The land settlement and the process of restoration. |
Restrictions on Access Note: | NLC staff and students only. |
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