Another brick to the wall: The unruly Irish nation within the civilized English empire, 17th century

The Irish nation was judged barbarous by the English colonizer, mainly because of the hybrid Catholicism, the primitive customs and traditions and the inexistence of property warrants of its inhabitants. Hence, Ireland, the first English colony, served as an imperial laboratory and as a reservoir fo...

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Main Author: Élodie Peyrol-Kleiber
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Presses Universitaires du Midi 2019-11-01
Series:Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
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Online Access:http://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/3879
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Another brick to the wall: The unruly Irish nation within the civilized English empire, 17th century
Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
indentured servitude
spiriting
unfree labour
empire
Ireland
Chesapeake
author_facet Élodie Peyrol-Kleiber
author_sort Élodie Peyrol-Kleiber
title Another brick to the wall: The unruly Irish nation within the civilized English empire, 17th century
title_short Another brick to the wall: The unruly Irish nation within the civilized English empire, 17th century
title_full Another brick to the wall: The unruly Irish nation within the civilized English empire, 17th century
title_fullStr Another brick to the wall: The unruly Irish nation within the civilized English empire, 17th century
title_full_unstemmed Another brick to the wall: The unruly Irish nation within the civilized English empire, 17th century
title_sort another brick to the wall: the unruly irish nation within the civilized english empire, 17th century
publisher Presses Universitaires du Midi
series Diasporas: Circulations, Migrations, Histoire
issn 1637-5823
publishDate 2019-11-01
description The Irish nation was judged barbarous by the English colonizer, mainly because of the hybrid Catholicism, the primitive customs and traditions and the inexistence of property warrants of its inhabitants. Hence, Ireland, the first English colony, served as an imperial laboratory and as a reservoir for land. Its population was used to meet the high demand of labour in the North American colonies. Some Irish decided to follow their own interest and participate in building the English empire while a lot more, mostly commoners, were driven to be agents of the empire, but against their will.
topic indentured servitude
spiriting
unfree labour
empire
Ireland
Chesapeake
url http://journals.openedition.org/diasporas/3879
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