New Foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 [Paperback]

David Dickson (Author)

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• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Irish Academic Pr; Revised edition (July 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0716526379
• ISBN-13: 978-0716526377
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.9 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,604,807 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding contribution to Irish political/cultural history, June 4, 2000

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This review is from: New Foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 (Hardcover)

Now in a newly revised and expanded second edition, David Dickson's New Foundations: Ireland 1660-1800 continues to be a benchmark contribution to Irish history. Dickson chronicles the cataclysmic events preceded change in Ireland before 1660 and led the emergence of a new social order dominated by the ruling class of Anglican gentry. This group went on to achieve a remarkable economic and political ascendancy over rival social and religious groups until the last quarter of the eighteenth century. New Foundations presents a comprehensive and informative general survey of this critically important period of Irish history and explains how such a monopoly of power was achieved, consolidated, and eventual challenged by a diversity of forces both internal and external. New Foundations continues to be a superb contribution that will be much appreciated by students and scholars of Irish political and cultural history.