As any historian can attest, dead men do indeed tell tales. Crafting stories through extant documents of the “very dead” is, after all, what historians do for a living. Things often tell tales as well, and, as Horning’s Ireland in the Virginian Sea suggests, one set of tales can be at odds with the other. In this book, she surveys a heretofore conventionally accepted story—that English colonization of Ireland preceded and served as a model for English colonization of the Chesapeake—to make her point. Employing Renaissance humanist ideals of cultural difference that demonized the Irish, English adventurers planted themselves in Ireland. Their task, as they saw it, was to reduce the barbarous Irish unto civility. Many of the projectors of Irish plantation schemes also, or so we have been told, planned American colonization projects, and the ideology that they employed in Ireland to horrifying effect served them well in Virginia...
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November 01 2014
Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic. By Audrey Horning (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2013) 496 pp. $49.95
Patrick Griffin
Online ISSN: 1530-9169
Print ISSN: 0022-1953
© 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Inc.
2014
MIT Press
The Journal of Interdisciplinary History (2014) 45 (3): 429–430.
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Patrick Griffin; Ireland in the Virginian Sea: Colonialism in the British Atlantic. By Audrey Horning (Chapel Hill, University of North Carolina Press, 2013) 496 pp. $49.95. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 2014; 45 (3): 429–430. doi: https://doi.org/10.1162/JINH_r_00737
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