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Improving Ireland? : projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786
Title
Improving Ireland? : projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786 / Toby Barnard.
ISBN
9781846820557 (hbk.)
1846820553 (hbk.)
Published
Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2008.
Physical Description
192 p., 16 p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
December 18, 2008
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The cult and cultures of improvement
Sir William Petty, Irish landowner and improver
Interests in Ireland : Richard Lawrence as improver
Improving Ireland's past
Improvement, imagination and antiquarianism in mid-eighteenth-century Ireland : the earls of Egmont and Lohort Castle, County Cork
The worlds of an improving Galway squire : Robert French of Monivea, 1716-79
Ireland improved?
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