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Captain Rock : The Irish Agrarian Rebellion Of 1821-1824.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: History of Ireland and the Irish Diaspora SeriesPublisher: Madison : University of Wisconsin Press, 2009Copyright date: ©2009Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (526 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780299233136
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Captain RockDDC classification:
  • 941.5081
LOC classification:
  • DA975
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Origins of the Movement -- 2. Expansion and Retreat -- 3. Ideology and Organization -- 4. Pastorini and Captain Rock: Millenarianism and Sectarianism -- 5. Social Composition and Leadership -- 6. The Issue of Tithes -- 7. The Issue of Rents -- 8. Patterns of Rockite Violence -- 9. Repression of the Movement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
Summary: Named for its mythical leader "Captain Rock," avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821-24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
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Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Origins of the Movement -- 2. Expansion and Retreat -- 3. Ideology and Organization -- 4. Pastorini and Captain Rock: Millenarianism and Sectarianism -- 5. Social Composition and Leadership -- 6. The Issue of Tithes -- 7. The Issue of Rents -- 8. Patterns of Rockite Violence -- 9. Repression of the Movement -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.

Named for its mythical leader "Captain Rock," avenger of agrarian wrongs, the Rockite movement of 1821-24 in Ireland was notorious for its extraordinary violence. In Captain Rock, James S. Donnelly, Jr., offers both a fine-grained analysis of the conflict and a broad exploration of Irish rural society after the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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