Research Catalog

Title

The making of a world power : war and the military revolution in seventeenth-century England / James Scott Wheeler.

Author

Wheeler, James Scott.

Publication

Stroud : Sutton, 1999.

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Details

Description

vii, 280 pages [16] pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"In 1605 England was a second-rate European power. There was neither a full-time navy nor a standing army. By 1705, however, this situation had changed dramatically, and England's professional army and navy were playing crucial roles in Europe and in North America. British army and navy personnel, backed by well-established military and financial organizations at home and abroad, allowed the island nation to become a leading European nation state and world power." "To explain this dramatic turnaround, Professor Wheeler refutes existing scholarship that places Britain's military and financial revolutions after the Glorious Revolution of 1688. He locates them earlier and, in particular, explains how they were centrally related to the mid-seventeenth century conflicts, both domestic and foreign." "Offering a radical re-interpretation of this important aspect of British history, this readable study reaches out to everyone fascinated by history, and to anyone interested in the roots of English world supremacy and the foundations of empire."--Jacket.

Subject

• 1603-1714
• Geschichte 1605-1705
• Militär
• Militärpolitik
• Militaire politiek
• Bewapening
• Financiële politiek
• Expansie (macht)
• Krieg > Grossbritannien > Geschichte 17. Jh
• Militär > Grossbritannien > Geschichte 17. Jh
• Militär > Politik > Grossbritannien > Geschichte 17. Jh
• Politik > Militär > Grossbritannien > Geschichte 17. Jh
• Militär > Grossbritannien > England > Geschichte > 1605-1705
• Militärpolitik > Grossbritannien > England > Geschichte > 1605-1705
• Great Britain > History > Stuarts, 1603-1714
• Great Britain > History, Military > 1603-1714
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien
• England > Militär > Geschichte > 1605-1705
• England > Militärpolitik > Geschichte > 1605-1705

Genre/Form

• History.
• Military history.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 263-277) and index.

Contents

1. The military revolution debate and seventeenth-century England -- 2. Prelude to power: the English Navy, 1509-1648 -- 3. The Naval Revolution -- 4. The creation of the English Standing Army -- 5. The financial crisis of the Long Parliament -- 6. The customs -- 7. The excise -- 8. The assessment -- 9. Final reckoning: the impact of seventeenth-century warfare on the English state.

ISBN

• 0750920254
• 9780750920254

LCCN

00503053

OCLC

• ocm41960371
• 41960371
• SCSB-14048243

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library