Title Empire and enterprise : money, power and the Adventurers for Irish Land during the British Civil Wars / David Brown.

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Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2020.

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Description	1 online resource (300 pages).
Physical Medium	polychrome
Description	text file
Series	Studies in early modern Irish history
	Studies in early modern Irish history.
Note	Includes index.
Summary	This book is about the transformation of England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, a revolution that destroyed Ireland. In 1642 a small group of merchants, the 'Adventurers for Irish land', raised an army to conquer Ireland but sent it instead to fight for parliament in England. Meeting secretly at Grocers Hall in London from 1642 to 1660, they laid the foundations of England's empire and modern fiscal state. But a dispute over their Irish land entitlements led them to reject Cromwell's Protectorate and plot to restore the monarchy. This is the first book to chart the relentless rise of the Adventurers and their profound political influence. It is essential reading for students of Britain and Ireland in the mid-seventeenth century, the origins of England's empire and the Cromwellian land settlement.
Contents	Introduction -- Atlantic oligarchy: Ireland in the early English Atlantic world -- The Three Kingdoms -- The Adventure for Irish land -- Grocers' Hall -- Commonwealth -- Republic -- Restoration -- Conclusion.
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Subject	Committee of Adventurers in London for Lands in Ireland.
	Committee of Adventurers in London for Lands in Ireland.
	Land tenure -- Ireland -- 17th century.
	Land tenure.
	Ireland.
Chronological Term	17th century
Subject	Ireland -- History -- 1625-1649.
	History.
Chronological Term	1625-1649
Subject	Land settlement -- Ireland -- History -- 17th century.
	Land settlement.
	Great Britain -- History -- Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1649-1660.
	Great Britain -- Commerce -- History -- 17th century.
	Great Britain.
	Commerce.
	Great Britain -- History -- Civil War, 1642-1649 -- Participation, Irish.
	Great Britain -- Politics and government -- 1603-1714.
	Politics and government.
Chronological Term	1603-1714
Subject	English Civil War (Great Britain : 1642-1649)
Chronological Term	1600-1714
Genre/Form	Electronic books.
	History.
Other Form:	Original 1526131994 9781526131997 (OCoLC)1120089376
ISBN	9781526132000 (electronic book)
	1526132001 (electronic book)
	9781526132017 (ePub ebook)
	152613201X (ePub ebook)
	9781526131997 (hardback)
	1526131994 (hardback)

Title Empire and enterprise : money, power and the Adventurers for Irish Land during the British Civil Wars / David Brown.

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