
Castles and colonists
Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I''s nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish ''savages'' are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles.
Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English ''adventurers'' including such influen...
Castles and colonists is the first book to examine life in the leading province of Elizabeth I''s nascent empire. Klinglehofer shows how an Ireland of colonising English farmers and displaced Irish ''savages'' are ruled by an imported Protestant elite from their fortified manors and medieval castles.
Richly illustrated, it displays how a generation of English ''adventurers'' including such influen...