Catholic Merchants and Anglo-Irish Trade in the Late Eighteenth Century: Commerce, Religion and Society

十八世纪后期的天主教商人和英爱贸易：商业、宗教和社会

• 批准号: 2600239
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: University of Oxford
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Studentship
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2021 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=studentship-2600239
• 关键词: Catholic; Merchants; Anglo; Irish; Trade

I will uncover the role of Catholic Ireland in the growth of Britain's Atlantic empire. Catholic Ireland was not simply a colony, peering in from outside the window. The left ventricle of the beating heart of empire, Irish ports channelled manpower, goods and capital across the emerging British world. My research will bridge a lacuna between the traditional Irish historiography and scholars of Britain's imperial fiscal-military state.In both quantitative and qualitative terms, I will examine the impact of Catholic trade in financing and expanding Britain's empire in the long eighteenth century. Specifically, my Masters research will focus on the role of Irish Catholics in the commercial Atlantic. For my doctoral research, I will expand its size, chronology and scope. I will examine the global impact of Catholic Irish trade. Accounts of the British Empire in India, Australasia and Africa have increasingly focused on the roles played by the United Kingdom's component cultures and peoples. However, these have overwhelmingly been biased towards Irish and Scotch Protestants; given the illicit nature of Catholic affiliation, the loudest voices in the historical record have often been Protestant, and historians have overlooked the significance of the Irish Catholic contribution.Studies on Catholic commerce are increasingly popular among British and European historians. I will expand the scope into global, imperial history. I seek to uncover whether we may find a form of 'economic nationalism' in Irish Catholic subjects across the empire. This I will define not only in overt acts of economic patriotism, such as the favouring of 'British' goods, but also in Irish Catholics' active participation in the economic and political systems that underpinned the Empire. This, I believe, will be the defining undercurrent of my doctoral research. It will first be a comprehensive study of one neglected part of British economic history, but it will also look to redefine conceptions of Britishness, and more significantly, Irishness. This, I believe, has implications that go beyond the historiography. Irishness, Britishness, and indeed identity itself, are important contemporary concepts. By examining economic, religious and cultural identity, I believe my research has the potential to have far reaching personal and cultural significance.

我将揭示天主教爱尔兰在不列颠大西洋帝国的发展中所扮演的角色。天主教的爱尔兰不仅仅是一个从窗外往里看的殖民地。作为帝国跳动心脏的左心室，爱尔兰港口将人力、货物和资本输送到新兴的不列颠世界。我的研究将弥合传统爱尔兰史学和英国帝国财政军事国家学者之间的空白。从定量和定性两方面，我将考察天主教贸易在漫长的18世纪中对英国帝国的融资和扩张的影响。具体来说，我的硕士研究将集中在爱尔兰天主教徒在商业大西洋中的作用。在我的博士研究中，我将扩大其规模，时间和范围。我将研究天主教爱尔兰贸易的全球影响。关于大英帝国在印度、澳大拉西亚和非洲的记述越来越侧重于英国的组成文化和民族所扮演的角色。然而，这些压倒性地偏向爱尔兰和苏格兰新教徒；鉴于天主教的非法性质，历史记录中最响亮的声音往往是新教徒，历史学家们忽视了爱尔兰天主教贡献的重要性。对天主教商业的研究在英国和欧洲历史学家中越来越受欢迎。我将把范围扩大到全球，帝国的历史。我试图揭示我们是否可以在整个帝国的爱尔兰天主教徒中找到一种形式的“经济民族主义”。这不仅体现在公开的经济爱国主义行为上，比如对“英国”商品的青睐，还体现在爱尔兰天主教徒积极参与支撑帝国的经济和政治体系上。我相信，这将是我博士研究的决定性潜流。它首先将全面研究英国经济史上一个被忽视的部分，但它也将寻求重新定义英国性的概念，更重要的是，爱尔兰性。我相信，这有超越史学的含义。爱尔兰性、英国性，甚至身份本身，都是重要的当代概念。通过考察经济、宗教和文化认同，我相信我的研究有可能具有深远的个人和文化意义。