Plantations by Land and Sea: North Channel communities of the Atlantic archipelago c.1550-1625

Citation

Cathcart A (2021) Plantations by Land and Sea: North Channel communities of the Atlantic archipelago c.1550-1625. Archipelagic Studies, 1. Oxford: Peter Lang. https://www.peterlang.com/document/1114378

Abstract
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 with the western Highlands and Isles of Scotland, and the repercussions of such a policy, the book with 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 as 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 a pivotal part of James VI and I's 'British' project, the outworking of that policy was rather different.