Bruce Lenman

England's Colonial Wars 1550-1688 (eBook, ePUB)

Conflicts, Empire and National Identity

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Produktbeschreibung

Bruce Lenman's hugely ambitious study explores three interacting themes: the growth of England's sprawling colonial empire; its military dimension; and the impact of colonial warfare on national identity. He starts in Ireland, with the renewed assault of English settlers on the Irish Gaeltacht. 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. These were very different kinds of empire; and a showdown became inevitable. The climactic conflict, the American Revolution, would not only dictate the future shape of colonial expansion, but also decisively reshaped the identities of all the participants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juli 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317898818
• Artikelnr.: 41212734

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