A History of Settlement in Ireland

Herausgeber: Barry, Terry

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Produktbeschreibung

A History of Settlement in Ireland provides a stimulating and thought-provoking overview of the settlement history of Ireland from prehistory to the present day. Particular attention is paid to the issues of settlement change and distribution within the contexts of: * environment * demography * culture. The collection goes further by setting the agenda for future research in this rapidly expanding area of academic interest. This volume will be essential reading for all those with an interest in the archaeology, history and social geography of Ireland.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. November 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 242mm x 162mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 544g
• ISBN-13: 9780415182089
• ISBN-10: 0415182085
• Artikelnr.: 21019059

Autorenporträt

Terry Barry is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Medieval History in Trinity College Dublin. He is the author of The Archaeology of Medieval Ireland (1994), published by Routledge.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Reading a landscape manuscript: a review of progress in prehistoric
settlement studies in Ireland 2 Settlement in early Ireland: a review 3
Early Christian Ireland: settlement and environment 4 Rural settlement in
medieval Ireland 5 Urbanisation in Ireland during the High Middle Ages c.
1100 to c. 1350 6 Plantation Ireland: a review of settlement history 7
Ireland a colony: settlement implications of the revolution in
military-administrative, urban and ecclesiastical structures, c. 1550 to c.
1730 8 Settlement and society in eighteenth-century Ireland 9 Trends in
nineteenth- and twentieth-century settlement 10 Perspectives on Irish
settlement studies