The Pamphlet Controversy about Wood's Halfpence (1722-25) and the Tradition of Irish Constitutional Nationalism
The controversy about Wood's Halfpence between 1722 and 1725 was an exceptional instance of Irish defiance of England's imperial authority. In a heated public dispute, more than 100 pamphlets and broadsides in prose and verse protested against the English Government's granting a patent for coining copper money for Ireland to an English manufacturer. Castigating the project in economic and constitutional terms, they revealed an indebtedness to traditional arguments for Ireland's status as a free kingdom, whose people enjoyed the same liberties as the people of England. The pamphlets thus render a representative picture of Irish political thought and of the country's relationship with its closest neighbour, and most powerful rival, England, in the early eighteenth century.
| Autor: | Baltes-Ellermann, Sabine |
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| EAN: | 9783631507575 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 335 |
| Produktart: | kartoniert, broschiert |
| Verlag: | Peter Lang |
| Schlagworte: | Dublin England Großbritannien Irland Pamphlet Swift, Jonathan Tradition Verfassung |
| Größe: | 148 × 210 |
| Gewicht: | 470 g |
