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The Chief Governors: The Rise and Fall of Reform Government in Tudor Ireland 15361588 (Cambridge Studies in Early Modern British History) by Ciaran Brady is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
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This book offers a fundamental critique of conventional views of sixteenth-century Irish history that have stressed the centrality of colonization and military confrontation. It argues that reform rather than conquest was the aim of Tudor policy-makers, but shows that the immense difficulties faced by the reformers in pursuing their objectives forced them to make administrative innovations that ultimately contradicted and undermined their original policy.
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Ciaran Brady
- Publisher
- Cambridge ; New York: Cambridge University Press
- Published
- 1994
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780511720970
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- History, Western, Political Science
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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