The first of two volumes in 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.
The first of two volumes in 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.
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
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
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