Ireland in the Virginian Sea
Colonialism in the British Atlantic
By Audrey Horning
406 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 33 halftones, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-3347-3
Published: February 2017 -
E-book EPUB ISBN: 978-1-4696-1073-3
Published: December 2013 -
E-book PDF ISBN: 979-8-8908-4364-7
Published: December 2013
Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
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Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
Awards & distinctions
2014 James Mooney Award, Southern Anthropological Society
A 2015 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In addition, Horning explores English colonialism from the perspective of the Gaelic Irish and Algonquian societies and traces the political and material impact of contact. The focus on the material culture of both locales yields a textured specificity to the complex relationships between natives and newcomers while exposing the lack of a determining vision or organization in early English colonial projects.
About the Author
Audrey Horning is Distinguished Professor of Arts and Sciences, College of William and Mary, and Professor of Archaeology, Queen's University Belfast. This is her fifth book.
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“A remarkable, creative work that uncovers and illumines. . . . Essential. Upper-division undergraduates and above.”--Choice
“In producing this accessible yet sophisticated account of two overlapping but distinct colonial enterprises, Horning offers a subtle interpretation of the complex early modern English plantation experience.”--American Historical Review
“Usefully encourages us to add complexity to often-simplified understandings of cultural conflict.”--Journal of Interdisciplinary History
“Horning’s larger conclusions will surely generate productive study and debate.”--Journal of British Studies
“Bold and challenging.”--Journal of Southern History
"Generate[s] a provocative, new perspective on the old debate of Ireland as a colonial model for developing Jamestown."--Southern Historian