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Article: The space of Ireland.(Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c. 1530-1750)(Book review)
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- Irish Literary Supplement
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- September 22, 2007
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WILLIAM J. SMYTH Map-making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland c. 1530-1750 Cork University Press, 2006, 69.00 [euro]
THIS IMPOSING WORK of historical geography--469 large, closely printed pages of text plus copious end-notes, bibliography, and some hundred illustrations, mainly maps--is a formidable contribution to Irish history. It might have been more accurately titled, or sub-titled, "The Early-Modern Subjugation of Ireland and the Irish," for that is its pervasive theme. Whereas non-geographical historians are often diverted by the spread and development of ideas, geographers like William J. Smyth have a healthy ...