Ulster Since 1600 Politics, Economy, and Society

Ulster Since 1600 surveys the history of the province from plantation to partition, and onwards from the formation of the Northern Ireland state to the 'Troubles' of recent decades. It synthesises existing historical knowledge and also brings new insights to bear on the political, social, and economic evolution of the province and its peoples. The word 'Ulster' conjures up images of communal conflict, sectarianism, and peace processes of indefinite duration but, as this volume shows, there is much more to the history of Ulster and its peoples. From the Plantation of Ulster in the early seventeenth century, the province has been home to three major ethnic and religious groups. It was this radically reconstituted society that produced a precociously early emigration to North America, that celebrated the outbreak of the French Revolution, and that in the Victorian era hosted Ireland's first industrial city. Its rural poor suffered destruction and death during the Great Famine of the 1840s, along with their counterparts in the south of Ireland. Its urban working classes had much in common with the industrial classes of England and Scotland, in terms of religiosity, popular entertainment, labour movements, gender, and family relationships. This multi-authored volume is a major contribution to the history of Ireland and to Ireland's contested place in the British and the wider world.

1 - The Early Modern Economy, 1600-1780
2 - Politics and Society, 1600-1800
3 - Family, Sex, and Marriage, 1600-1800
4 - People and Population Change, 1600-1914
5 - Religion and Society, 1600-1914
6 - Crime, Policing, and the Law, 1600-1900
7 - Popular Culture, 1600-1914
8 - Urban Ulster Since 1600
9 - Migration and Emigration, 1600-1945
10 - The Rural Economy, 1780-1914
11 - Business and Finance, 1780-1945
12 - Labour and Society, 1780-1945
13 - Education Since 1780
14 - Politics and Society 1800-1960
15 - Gender, Family, and Sexuality, 1800-2000
16 - Sport in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
17 - Agriculture and Rural Policy Since 1914
18 - Industry and Labour Since 1945
19 - Social Policy and Social Change Since 1914
20 - Politics Since 1960

Liam Kennedy is Professor Emeritus of Economic and Social History at Queen's University Belfast. He is author or editor of several books on economic, demographic, and agrarian history. Philip Ollerenshaw is Reader in History at the University of the West of England, Bristol. He is the author or editor of several books on economic, financial, and urban history.