Includes bibliographical references (pages 471-554) and index.
Contents:
Marking out the terrain -- Making the documents of conquest speak -- Making Ireland visible : maps as instruments of conquest -- Maps versus memory : exploring the hidden Irelands -- The transformation of Ireland, 1641-1654 : wars of the "body politic" -- William Petty and the construction of Cromwellian Ireland -- Society, settlement, and immigration in mid-seventeenth century Ireland : the evidence of the "1659 census" -- Dublin County : changing social geographies in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries -- County Kilkenny : territorial, social, and settlement hierarchies -- County Tipperary : property, patronage, and population -- A world turned upside down -- Revolutionary changes in the territorial organization of Irish society, 1530-1750 -- Upheavals in economy, family naming patterns, and language, 1530-1750 -- Ireland and America : England's first frontiers.
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