Title The case of Ireland : commerce, empire and the European order, 1750-1848 / James Stafford, Columbia University

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (x, 298 pages) Series Ideas in context Ideas in context. Contents Cover -- Half-title -- Series information -- Title page -- Copyright information -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An Age of Crisis -- The British Empire in Europe -- Conquest, Liberty and Aristocracy -- Visions of Commercial Society -- The Case of Ireland -- Chapter 1 The Enlightenment Critique of Empire in Ireland, c. 1750-1776 -- Conquest and Colonisation, 1542-1692 -- The Case of Ireland and the Woollen Controversy -- The Declaratory Act (1720) and the Penal Laws (1695-1728) -- 'Improvement' and the Catholic Question Montesquieu, Hume, Smith and Tucker on Ireland and 'Jealousy of Trade' -- Smith, Young and the Political Economy of Anglo-Irish Ascendancy -- Regenerating Empire -- Chapter 2 Commerce without Empire?: 'Free Trade' and 'Legislative Independence', 1776-1787 -- Molyneux's Case and the 'Friends of America' -- Commerce and the Balance of Power -- Free Ports and Protecting Duties -- From 'Foederal Union' to Commercial Propositions -- Sugar, Manufactures and the Revision of the Propositions -- The Irish Debate on the Revised Propositions -- Josiah Tucker on Ireland and the Slave Trade A Revolution in Retrospect -- Chapter 3 Property, Revolution and Peace, 1789-1803 -- 'A Rank among the Primary Nations of the Earth' -- War, Empire and Slavery -- Arthur O'Connor and the 'Natural Progress of Opulence' -- Ireland and French Empire -- Rival Universalisms -- Chapter 4 Enlightenment against Revolution: Commerce, Aristocracy and the Case for Union, 1798-1801 -- An Empire Divided -- Faction, Religion and Aristocracy -- Poverty and Disaffection -- John Foster and Thomas Brooke Clarke on Commerce and 'Feudalism' -- William Drennan and the Radical Critique of Union Friedrich Gentz on Union and the Balance of Power -- The 'System of Burkism'? -- Chapter 5 The Granary of Great Britain: War, Population and Agriculture 1798-1815 -- Currency and Capital -- Grain and Emancipation -- Ireland and the Continental System -- Dependency and Empire -- Robert Malthus, Edward Wakefield and the Politics of the Potato -- The Making of an Orthodoxy -- Chapter 6 Democracy, Nationality and the Social Question, 1815-1848 -- The British Economists and the 'Cottage System' -- Property and the Social Question -- Gustave de Beaumont, Ireland and the Future of Democracy Young Ireland and the Political Economy of 'Nationality' -- James Fintan Lalor and John Stuart Mill on Famine and Revolution -- The Legacies of Revolution -- Conclusion: Ireland between Empires -- Bibliography -- Manuscript Sources -- Printed Sources -- Secondary Literature -- Index Summary "In the closing decades of the eighteenth century, Ireland became the object of a vigorous debate concerning the promise and perils of commerce in an era of global war and revolution. This debate concerned not just the identity and future of the Irish polity itself, but of the British Empire of which it was a central part; and the relationship of that empire to its European allies and rivals. As such, it had many participants: not only Irish and British, but French, German, Swiss and Italian"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on March 02, 2022) Subject POLITICAL SCIENCE / History & Theory. Commerce Diplomatic relations Economic history SUBJECT Ireland -- History -- 18th century -- Commerce Ireland -- History -- 19th century -- Commerce Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 18th century Ireland -- Economic conditions -- 19th century Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056700 Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- 19th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056709 Subject Great Britain Ireland Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021044713 ISBN 9781009031905 1009031902 1009033654 9781009033657

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