England's colonial wars, 1550-1688 : conflicts, empire, and national identity
Bruce Lenman
Bok · Engelsk · 2001
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| Omfang | x, 310 sider : illustrasjoner, kart
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| Opplysninger | Part one. The Tudor crown, the English nation, and the heritage of Anglo-Norman expansionism c. 1550-1603. 1. Colonial Englishmen face up to the Tudors ; 2. The Gaidhealtachd and the colonial enterprise ; 3. Feedin frenzy: marginal courtiers and perceived opportunities, 1578-1590 ; 4. Nadir of statesmanship: the origins of the last Elizabethan colonial war ; 5. the bankruptcy of Elizabethan imperialism and the fatal fracturing of the Englishry. Part two. Three-kingdom monarchy and empire, 1603-1688 ; 6. Reluctant warriors: James I, Charles I, appeasement and the aborting of a three-kingdom overseas empire ; 7. The enthusiasts for empire: The English East India Company and the struggle for maritime trade in the seventeenth-century Asia to 1689 ; 8. War in the New English marchlands in North America 1607-1676 ; 9. The clash of European states and the rise of the imperial factor in the Caribbean and North America. - 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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| Emner | kolonier kolonisering kriger kolonikriger
1500-tallet 1600-tallet Storbritannia historie |
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| ISBN | 0582062969. - 0582062977. - 9780582062962
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