The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 1536-1588

by Ciarán Brady

Book Overview

This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that the immense difficulties faced by the reformers in pursuing their objectives forced them to make administrative innovations that ultimately contradicted and undermined their original...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521520045
• ISBN13: 9780521520041
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 344 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.1"