Minor Omissions

by Tobias Hecht

Book Overview

Between the years 1778 and 1784, groups that had previously been excluded from the Irish political sphere women, Catholics, lower-class Protestants, farmers, shopkeepers, and other members of the laboring and agrarian classes began to imagine themselves as civil subjects with a stake in matters of the state. This politicization of non-elites was largely driven by the Volunteers, a local militia force that emerged in Ireland as British troops were...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0299180344
• ISBN13: 9780299180348
• Release Date: September 2002
• Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.0" x 9.2"