Description

In the late sixteenth century, the English started expanding westward, establishing control over parts of neighboring Ireland as well as exploring and later colonizing distant North America.  Audrey Horning deftly examines the relationship between British colonization efforts in both locales, depicting their close interconnection as fields for colonial experimentation.  Focusing on the Ulster Plantation in the north of Ireland and the Jamestown settlement in the Chesapeake, she challenges the notion that Ireland merely served as a testing ground for British expansion into North America.  Horning instead analyzes the people, financial networks, and information that circulated through and connected English plantations on either side of the Atlantic.

Author: Audrey Horning

Published: 2013

Pages: 381

Paperback

ISBN: 9781469633473