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Lila Chambers

is a historian of race, slavery, and commodification in the early modern Atlantic. She recently received her PhD from New York University. In addition to working as a Research Fellow with the AHRC-funded The Legacies of the British Slave Trade at University College London, she is revising her PhD into a book manuscript entitled, "Liquid Capital: Alcohol and the Rise of Slavery in the British Atlantic."
Alcohol, Armies, and Contested Sovereignty in Early Modern Ireland
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Alcohol, Armies, and Contested Sovereignty in Early Modern Ireland

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a guest post by Lila Chambers The association between Ireland and excessive drinking is a pervasive one, from fifteenth century texts detailing treacherous feasts held by Irish opponents to Henry II, to Edmund Spender’s A View of the Present State…