Series editors’ preface

Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Contents vii
4. List of figures ix
5. List of contributors xi
6. Series editors’ preface xv
7. Acknowledgements xvii
8. 1 Introduction – 1641 1
9. 2 Early modern violence from memory to history 17
10. 3 The ‘1641 massacres’ 37
11. 4 1641 in a colonial context 52
12. 5 Towards a cultural geography of the 1641 rising/rebellion 71
13. 6 Out of the blue 95
14. 7 News from Ireland 115
15. 8 Performative violence and the politics of violence in the 1641 depositions 134
16. 9 Atrocities in the Thirty Years War 153
17. 10 Why remember terror? 176
18. 11 Language and conflict in the French Wars of Religion 197
19. 12 How to make a successful plantation 219
20. 13 An Irish Black Legend 236
21. 14 Afterword 254
22. Index 274