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Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World de Jane Ohlmeyer

Making Empire: Ireland, Imperialism, and the Early Modern World

Autor Jane Ohlmeyer
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 9 noi 2023

Nivel de studiu: master și referință profesională în istorie. În „Making Empire”, observăm o reevaluare profundă a poziției Irlandei în cadrul structurilor imperiale timpurii, o temă care capătă o relevanță acută în contextul actual al dezbaterilor despre Brexit și mișcările sociale contemporane. Jane Ohlmeyer nu tratează colonizarea ca pe un eveniment singular, ci ca pe un proces iterativ și durabil, desfășurat între anii 1550 și 1770, perioadă ce coincide cu ascensiunea Primului Imperiu Englez. Găsim în această lucrare o analiză nuanțată a modului în care puterea, violența și exproprierea au fost folosite pentru a transforma cucerirea în profit.

Această monografie completează perspectiva oferită de Ireland and the British Empire de Kevin Kenny, adăugând o lentilă specifică asupra modernității timpurii și funcționării Irlandei ca „laborator” pentru politicile coloniale ce aveau să fie exportate global. Apreciem modul în care Ohlmeyer poziționează irlandezii nu doar ca victime, ci și ca agenți activi, trans-imperiali, care au interacționat cu diverse puteri europene. Lucrarea se integrează organic în opera vastă a autoarei, continuând rigoarea documentară din The Cambridge History of Ireland: Volume 2, 1550-1730 și rafinând argumentele despre statutul constituțional ambiguu explorate în Kingdom or Colony?. Stilul este academic, dens în informație factuală, dar ancorat într-o viziune clară asupra modului în care trecutul imperial modelează viitorul politic al regiunii.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192867681
ISBN-10: 0192867687
Pagini: 368
Dimensiuni: 163 x 241 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.77 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

De ce să citești această carte

Pentru cercetătorii istoriei britanice și irlandeze, această carte oferă o înțelegere critică a rădăcinilor imperialismului modern. Cititorul câștigă o perspectivă clară asupra modului în care resursele naturale și forța de muncă au fost mobilizate istoric, oferind instrumente intelectuale necesare pentru a naviga discursurile politice actuale legate de moștenirea colonială și identitatea națională în spațiul anglo-saxon.

Despre autor

Jane Ohlmeyer este profesor Erasmus Smith de istorie modernă la Trinity College, Dublin, fiind una dintre cele mai autoritare voci în studiul Irlandei timpurii. Expertiza sa este consolidată de coordonarea unor proiecte monumentale precum The Cambridge History of Ireland. Opera sa se concentrează pe intersecția dintre istoria politică, militară și socială, explorând tensiunile dintre identitatea de regat și cea de colonie a Irlandei în secolele XVII și XVIII. Prin activitatea sa academică și editorială, Ohlmeyer a remodelat modul în care istoriografia contemporană raportează experiența irlandeză la contextul imperial global.

Descriere

Ireland was England's oldest colony. Making Empire revisits the history of empire in Ireland—in a time of Brexit, 'the culture wars', and the campaigns around 'Black Lives Matter' and 'Statues must fall'—to better understand how it has formed the present, and how it might shape the future.Empire and imperial frameworks, policies, practices, and cultures have shaped the history of the world for the last two millennia. It is nation states that are the blip on the historical horizon. Making Empire re-examines empire as process—and Ireland's role in it—through the lens of early modernity. It covers the two hundred years, between the mid-sixteenth century and the mid-eighteenth century, that equate roughly to the timespan of the First English Empire (c.1550-c.1770s).Ireland was England's oldest colony. How then did the English empire actually function in early modern Ireland and how did this change over time? What did access to European empires mean for people living in Ireland? This book answers these questions by interrogating four interconnected themes. First, that Ireland formed an integral part of the English imperial system, Second, that the Irish operated as agents of empire(s). Third, Ireland served as laboratory in and for the English empire. Finally, it examines the impact that empire(s) had on people living in early modern Ireland. Even though the book's focus will be on Ireland and the English empire, the Irish were trans-imperial and engaged with all of the early modern imperial powers. It is therefore critical, where possible and appropriate, to look to other European and global empires for meaningful comparisons and connections in this era of expansionism.What becomes clear is that colonisation was not a single occurrence but an iterative and durable process that impacted different parts of Ireland at different times and in different ways. That imperialism was about the exercise of power, violence, coercion and expropriation. Strategies about how best to turn conquest into profit, to mobilise and control Ireland's natural resources, especially land and labour, varied but the reality of everyday life did not change and provoked a wide variety of responses ranging from acceptance and assimilation to resistance.This book, based on the 2021 James Ford Lectures, Oxford University, suggests that the moment has come revisit the history of empire, if only to better understand how it has formed the present, and how this might shape the future.

Recenzii

In Making Empire, Jane Ohlmeyer assesses how imperial processes shaped developments in early-modern Ireland, and how Irish people-Catholic and Protestant-contributed to the formation of global empires. This lively, insightful and challenging narrative derives its authority from Ohlmeyer's archival research and her judicious appraisal of academic and literary productions.
Jane Ohlmeyer has provided a masterful and sweeping overview of Ireland's role in the British empire. Displaying a huge breadth of original research, she offers a new story of early modern Ireland's contributions to the global world order, one that will shift our view of empire and help us understand how we live with its legacies today.
A landmark new book ... Ohlmeyer is one of the most influential Irish historians of this century.
Jane Ohlmeyer sheds fascinating light on Ireland's role in what became the British Empire.
[Making Empire] is the fruit of a lifetime's reflection on Ireland's multiple histories and of Ohlmeyer's immersion in their burgeoning historiographies. The result is not just an exemplar of the now not so new British history: it is a model for deprovincializing any national history under the long shadow of empire ...This is a truly new British-and-Irish history.
Impressive ... an outstanding book on a complicated subject that confirms ... Ohlmeyer's reputation as Ireland's leading public intellectual.
Ireland has long had a complicated and multifaceted relationship with Britain and, as Ohlmeyer amply demonstrates, with the British Empire as well. Focusing on the early modern period, she establishes how the English state adopted different approaches in dealing with Ireland at different times, varying according to the inclination of individual rulers or the exigencies of domestic or foreign politics...In the process, she provides a useful overview of Irish history in the early modern period from a global and imperial perspective. Recommended.
This is an important book, and Ohlmeyer's work here and more broadly will undoubtedly serve as a touchstone for many others to further explore the myriad themes and questions she raises about early modern Ireland and the wider world.

Notă biografică

Jane Ohlmeyer, MRIA, FTCD, FRHistS, is Erasmus Smith Professor of Modern History at Trinity College Dublin, where she served as Trinity's first Vice-President for Global Relations (2011-14). She was a driving force behind the 1641 Depositions Project and the development of the Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute which she directed (2015-20). She is a passionate teacher and has held appointments and fellowships at institutions in Brazil, England, France, India, Scotland, South Africa, and the US. She chaired the Irish Research Council (2015-21) and has served on numerous editorial and other boards. She is the author or editor of numerous articles and 11 books. She is currently working on a 4-part documentary called 'From that Small Island: the story of the Irish' which will be broadcast in March 2024.