Map-Making, Landscapes and Memory: A Geography of Colonial and Early Modern Ireland, c.1530-1750

摘要

This is a remarkable book, which has received an award from the American Conference for Irish Studies. It is a work of outstanding scholarship, and the result of painstaking research; it is exquisitely produced, and makes a substantial contribution, offering many new ideas. The publishers describe the work as 'the first engagement in one book by a geographer with the most formative and revolutionary period in Ireland's history'. The author seeks to document, through maps, published and unpublished, the story of the colonisation and transformation of Ireland's landscape and society by the 'New English' and 'Scottish' settlers. The point of view is clearly stated. The book opens with the sentence: The New English colonization of Ireland from the 1530s onward may be seen as the equivalent of a major continental invasion that transformed the island from Malin Head to Rosslare and from Fair Head to Cape Clear.