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Improving Ireland? : projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786

Title
Improving Ireland? : projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786 / Toby Barnard.
Author
Barnard, T. C. (Toby Christopher)
Publication
Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2008.

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Description
192 p., 16 p. of plates : ill.; 24 cm.
Subject
  • Ireland > History > 17th century
  • Ireland > History > 18th century
  • Ireland > Social conditions > 17th century
  • Ireland > Social conditions > 18th century
Bibliography (note)
  • 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?
Call Number
JFE 08-8355
ISBN
  • 9781846820557 (hbk.)
  • 1846820553 (hbk.)
LCCN
2008300097
OCLC
220016352
Author
Barnard, T. C. (Toby Christopher)
Title
Improving Ireland? : projectors, prophets and profiteers, 1641-1786 / Toby Barnard.
Imprint
Dublin ; Portland, OR : Four Courts Press, c2008.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Research Call Number
JFE 08-8355
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