HIS 2326 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Anglicisation, Puritans, Levant Company
23 Jul 2018
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Irish plantations, colonization (failed attempts at colonization: emergence of (joint-stock) companies, colonization - success. Irish plantations: to plant people not crops, 1550s-1650s. godly reformation: were willing to go further distance to further the protestant faith. 2 processes: munster plantation, southern ireland, under the elizabethans. In the case of ulster plantations, the majority who went were scots not english and were more. godly/enthusiastic protestants: scottish calvinist (came to be known as presbyterians, most devout and godly, created tensions w/ both the irish and the english. Goal to do 2 things: civilize the irish, christianize the irish (being catholic was irrelevant) Francis bacon argued that they had to reduce ireland. Level it and build upon it your own image. Ireland = laboratory for imperial expansion: used these techniques in na, best way to colonize people is to understand the native geography, complete survey of the region, cartography and geography become central to the colonial process.
