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Book SynopsisThis volume explores one of the key episodes in Irish history from a variety of historical perspectives and situates the 1641 massacres in their early modern Irish, European and Atlantic contexts.
Table of Contents1. Introduction: 1641: fresh contexts and perspectives – Jane Ohlmeyer and Micheál Ó Siochrú
2. Early modern violence from memory to history: a historiographical essay – Ethan Shagan
3. The 1641 massacres – Aidan Clarke
4. 1641 in a colonial context – Nicholas Canny
5. Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 Rising/Rebellion – Willie Smyth
6. Out of the blue? Provincial unrest in Ireland before 1641 – David Edwards
7. News from Ireland: Catalan, Portuguese and Castilian pamphlets on the Confederate War in Ireland – Hiram Morgan
8. Performative Violence? Patterns of political violence in the 1641 Depositions – John Walter
9. Atrocities in the Thirty Years War – Peter Wilson
10. Why remember terror? Memories of violence in the Dutch Revolt – Judith Pollman & Erika Kuijpers
11. Language and conflict in the Wars of Religion – Mark Greengrass
12. How to make a successful plantation: colonial experiment in America – Karen Kupperman
13. An Irish Black legend? 1641 and the Iberian Atlantic – Igor Pérez Tostado
Afterword: settler colonies, ethnoreligious violence, and historical documentation: comparative reflections on Southeast Asia and Ireland – Ben Kiernan
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