Empire and Enterprise: Money, Power and the Adventurers for Irish Land During the British Civil Wars
The Adventurers for Irish land transformed England's trade and government finances in the mid-seventeenth century, laying the foundations of the British Empire and modern fiscal state. This is the first book to recognise the key role of the Adventurers and the centrality of Ireland to the Wars of the Three Kingdoms. -- .
David Brown
- Manchester University Press
- 9781526163783
- 312 pages
- €30
- Paperback / softback
- United Kingdom
- British & Irish history
