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- Title
Cultural Conflict and the Landscape of Conquest in Early Modern Ireland.
- Authors
Montaño, John Patrick
- Abstract
Tudor officials in Ireland formulated a number of strategies for ordering, settling, and civilizing Ireland. At the heart of nearly each one was the assumption that introducing agriculture and a cultivated landscape was the essential first step towards achieving their goal. Amidst the confiscations and plantations there was a consistent effort made to transform the landscape and to create a contrived environment that emphasized human control over nature. The alteration of Irish land and ecology in this period reveals an ideology of colonialism that can be read in the landscape that resulted. The need to replace one culture with another, to supplant a natural environment with an engineered one, an uncultivated landscape with a civilized, rational one, was to provide a focus, a battleground, even a language for the conflict associated with the policy of plantation. Indeed, land was often at the centre of the violence in Ireland.
- Subjects
IRELAND; CULTURE conflict; HISTORIC agricultural landscapes; INTERNAL colonialism; IRISH civilization; POLITICAL violence; HISTORY; TWENTIETH century; NINETEENTH century
- Publication
Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, 2017, Vol 40, p120
- ISSN
0703-1459
- Publication type
Article