Bruce Lenman

England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688

Conflicts, Empire and National Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

This hugely ambitious study explores the birth of England s sprawling colonial empire from its origins in the middle of the sixteenth century to the Glorious Revolution. The complexity of the military dimensions is explored independently and in relation to the impact of colonial warfare on national identity. Starting with Ireland and England in the Tudor period, the renewed assault of English settlers on the Irish Gaeltacht is described and analysed. By 1600 this conflict was beyond rational control, leaving the nation fatefully fissured. Under the (Scottish) Stuarts, England then began a dramatic expansion across the North Atlantic. In America, the Indian Wars, fought with minimal Crown support, helped forge an independent military capability among the colonists; while, in the West Indies, slave numbers and French intervention forced English settlers into a new dependency on the Crown. In India, the East India Company achieved ascendancy by sepoy armies under British control. England's Colonial Wars shows that these were very different kinds of empire achieved and sustained in divergent ways and with profoundly differing long-term consequences. Bruce Lenman is Professor of Modern History at the University od St. Andrews. He has also written Britain's Colonial Wars, 1688 - 1783.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 158mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9780582062962
• ISBN-10: 0582062969
• Artikelnr.: 39293045

Autorenporträt

Bruce Lenman is Professor of Modern History at the University of St. Andrews. He has also written Britain's Colonial Wars, 1688 - 1783.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Give war a chance; 1: The Tudor Crown, the English Nation, and
the Heritage of Anglo-Norman Expansionism 1550-1603; 1: Colonial Englishmen
face up to the Tudors; 3: The Gaidhealtachd and the colonial enterprise; 4:
Feeding frenzy: marginal courtiers and perceived opportunities, 1578-1590;
5: Nadir of statesmanship: the origins of the last Elizabethan colonial
war; 6: The bankruptcy of Elizabethan imperialism and the fatal fracturing
of the Englishry; 2: Three-Kingdom Monarchy and Empire 1603-1688; 7:
Reluctant warriors: James I, Charles I, appeasement and the aborting of a
three-kingdom overseas empire; 8: No enthusiasts for empire: the English
East India Company and the struggle for maritime trade in
seventeenth-century Asia to 1689; 9: War in the New English marchlands in
North America 1607-1676; 10: The clash of European states and the rise of
the imperial factor in the Caribbean and North America; 11: Conclusion The
fracturing of the Englishry, the marginality of colonial enterprise, and
the erratic impact of war