%0 Book
%A Alison Cathcart
%D 2021
%C Oxford, United Kingdom
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%@ 2732-5253
%@ 9781789973792
%T Plantations by Land and Sea
%B North Channel Communities of the Atlantic Archipelago c.1550-1625
%R 10.3726/b18683
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114378
%X This book traces the development, and subsequent implementation, of the policy of plantation from the mid-sixteenth through to the early seventeenth century focusing specifically on the North Channel context. By examining why plantation emerged as a policy within the north of Ireland, why it was implemented within the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland, and the repercussions of such a policy, the book will engage with debates about plantation as part of a «civilising» policy, and what that meant for communities and individuals that were brought together by the waters of the North Channel. Rather than view plantation as a tool of state formation, formulated at the centre and imposed onto the periphery, the author seeks to emphasise it was the result of ongoing dialogue between a number of individuals and communities and was as much a response of the centre to events on the periphery. Thus, while plantation in the northern province of Ireland came to be a pivotal part of James VI and I’s «British» project, the outworking of that policy was rather different.
%K Plantation by land and sea as policy and process, Centre and periphery frameworks, Local communities of the North Channel and their interaction, Alison Cathcart, Plantations by Land and Sea
%G English